Carsharing operations policies: a comparison between one-way and two-way systems

Transportation

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 497-518

  Nourinejad, Mehdi ^a   Roorda, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carsharing; Decision support system; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMERCE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; VEHICLES;

CARSHARING; DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS; MOBILITY SERVICE; OPERATIONAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; SERVICE PROVIDER; TACTICAL PLANNING;

FLEET OPERATIONS;

EID: 84937761751     PISSN: 00494488     EISSN: 15729435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11116-015-9604-3     Document Type: Article

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