Trip pricing of one-way station-based carsharing networks with zone and time of day price variations

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 461-482

  Jorge, Diana ^a   Molnar, Goran ^b   de Almeida Correia, Gonçalo Homem ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Iterated local search; Mathematical programming; One way carsharing; Trip pricing

Indexed keywords

FLEET OPERATIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LOCAL SEARCH (OPTIMIZATION); MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROFITABILITY; VEHICLES;

BALANCED SYSTEMS; BALANCING STRATEGY; CARSHARING; FLEET OF VEHICLES; ITERATED LOCAL SEARCH; MIXED-INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PRICING PROBLEMS; PRICING STRATEGY;

COSTS;

AUTOMOBILE; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NETWORK ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICING POLICY; TRANSPORTATION POLICY; URBAN TRANSPORT;

LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; LISBON; PORTUGAL;

EID: 84947493661     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2015.06.003     Document Type: Article

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