Models for effective deployment and redistribution of bicycles within public bicycle-sharing systems

Operations Research

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1346-1359

  Shu, Jia ^a   Chou, Mabel C ^b   Liu, Qizhang ^b   Teo, Chung Piaw ^b   Wang, I Lin ^c  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SEGMENTS; IMPROVING SYSTEMS; INITIAL ALLOCATIONS; NETWORK FLOW MODEL; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; TRAIN OPERATOR; TRAIN SYSTEMS; UTILIZATION RATES;

DECISION MAKING; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SPORTING GOODS;

BICYCLES;

EID: 84891777400     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2013.1215     Document Type: Article

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