Inventory rebalancing and vehicle routing in bike sharing systems

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 992-1004

  Schuijbroek, J ^a   Hampshire, R C ^b   van Hoeve, W J ^c  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bike sharing; Constraint programming; Integer programming; Inventory; Markov processes; Routing

Indexed keywords

BICYCLES; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMIZATION; POLYNOMIALS; VEHICLE ROUTING;

BIKE SHARING; CLUSTERING PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CONSTRAINT PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; ROUTING;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84994143414     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.08.029     Document Type: Article

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