01627946

Component

Operators of free-floating carsharing systems typically encounter the problem of imbalances in their vehicle fleets, caused by demand fluctuations over the course of one day, or from one day to the following. In order to provide a high level of accessibility to their service with a minimum number of vehicles, they must consider relocating unused vehicles. While some strategies to accomplish this have been successfully implemented, both in simulation and in practice, the set of tools required to represent carsharing in agent-based simulations is still incomplete. Agent-based simulations are particularly well suited to this task, because they allow modeling the interaction of supply and demand at individual level. This paper describes the implementation of the relocation agents within MATSim framework as an extension to the previous work on carsharing. The implementation was tested using a simple operator-based relocation strategy.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP020 Standing Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies. Alternate title: Implementation of Vehicle Relocation for Carsharing Services in Multiagent Transport Simulation MATSim

01618707

17-06805

English

12p

2017

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; Maps; References

Automobiles; Simulation; Vehicle fleets; Vehicle sharing

Agent based models; Free-floating carsharing; Multiagent systems; Vehicle relocation

Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06805

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 8 2016 12:48PM