Incentives and redistribution in homogeneous bike-sharing systems with stations of finite capacity

EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 261-291

  Fricker, Christine ^a   Gast, Nicolas ^a,b,c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Bike sharing systems; Incentives; Mean field approximation; Redistribution mechanisms; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

AVERAGE NUMBERS; CLOSED FORM; EXPONENTIAL FACTORS; FINITE CAPACITY; INCENTIVES; MEAN FIELD APPROXIMATION; POOR PERFORMANCE; SHARING SYSTEMS;

BICYCLES;

EID: 85040379773     PISSN: 21924376     EISSN: 21924384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13676-014-0053-5     Document Type: Article

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