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Title:

Reservation Scheme for Vehicle Sharing Systems

Accession Number:

01697997

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

In the last 20 years vehicle sharing has been a growing trend in personal mobility. Multiple aspects of these systems have been already discussed: different forms of vehicle sharing, user’s preferences and behavior, or benefits estimation. Nevertheless, the management of these systems needs to be continuously improved to remain a competitive alternative. In this work, we propose a reservation scheme to manage in advanced rental reservations of a two way station based vehicle sharing system. It allows the operator to better plan the necessary vehicles at each station, and encourages the drivers to make a better use of the existing vehicles, by showing flexibility in the starting rental time. The reservation scheme is organized with an auction, where drivers bet for their preferred rental start time. Drivers participating in the auction are offered a reduced rental fare, which is then complemented with the reservation fee that results from the auction. The auction is solved under Vickrey-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism for combinatorial auctions, which guarantees the desired properties for the operator and the drivers. The proposed scheme is tested on instances inspired by the Mobility system in Zurich, Switzerland. The results show that operators could decrease their fleets with low impacts on the overall rental fees, especially when drivers show flexibility in their rental start times. Moreover, reservation fees can at least partially compensate the decrease on rental fees provided to the auction users.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP020 Standing Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies.

Report/Paper Numbers:

19-03891

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

Authors:

Roca-Riu, Mireia
Menendez, Monica

Pagination:

6p

Publication Date:

2019

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2019-1-13 to 2019-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Zurich (Switzerland)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2019 Paper #19-03891

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 7 2018 9:43AM