Dynamic vehicle redistribution and online price incentives in shared mobility systems

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1567-1578

  Pfrommer, Julius ^a   Warrington, Joseph ^b   Schildbach, Georg ^b   Morari, Manfred ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bicycle sharing; dynamic pricing; dynamic vehicle routing; model predictive control (MPC); shared mobility systems

Indexed keywords

BICYCLES; COSTS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; SALES; SPORTING GOODS;

BICYCLE SHARING; DYNAMIC PRICING; DYNAMIC VEHICLE ROUTING; INTELLIGENT ROUTING; MOBILITY SYSTEMS; MODEL BASED PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PRICE INCENTIVES; REAL-TIME PRICE;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905908386     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2014.2303986     Document Type: Article

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