A simulation framework for optimizing bike rebalancing and maintenance in large-scale bike-sharing systems

摘要: Bike-sharing systems (BSSs) have rapidly attracted worldwide interest for their success in improving quality-of-life in metropolitan areas. One kind of BSS requires docking stations to avoid misplacements of bikes. Such a BSS is faced with challenges caused by imbalanced demands across stations and frequent failures of bikes and docks. To achieve a high level of customer satisfaction, timely bike rebalancing and system maintenance must be performed. In this work, a simulation framework is proposed for evaluating different rebalancing and …