Assessing the viability of enabling a round-trip carsharing system to accept one-way trips: Application to Logan Airport in Boston

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 56, Issue , 2015, Pages 359-372

  Jorge, Diana ^a   Barnhart, Cynthia ^b   de Almeida Correia, Gonçalo Homem ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Integer programming model; One way carsharing; Round trip carsharing

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; PROFITABILITY;

AIRPORT STATION; BOSTON , USA; CARSHARING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS; ORIGIN-DESTINATION PAIRS; PARKING SPOT; ROUND TRIP; SERVICE NETWORK;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

AIRPORT; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; RELOCATION; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM; TRAVEL DEMAND;

BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84947492244     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2015.04.020     Document Type: Article

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