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I recently published on the same topic. [1] In many bike sharing systems (such as in London), there is a daily repeating cycle, where too many people want to g
by jpfr 12y ago
I recently published on the same topic. [1]
In many bike sharing systems (such as in London), there is a daily repeating cycle, where too many people want to get to the city center in the morning and back out in the early evening. You know that will happen. So countermeasures can be taken early on.
[1] Dynamic Vehicle Redistribution and Online Price Incentives in Shared Mobility Systems, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6754195 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumb...
- toomuchtodo 12y agoHow does London handle that rebalancing then? Physically moving bikes with a lorry?
- jpfr 12y agoAt one point they had nearly 30 repositioning trucks in London (2-3 years ago). At Waterloo Station they basically hand them off trucks directly to the arriving customers during rush hour.
- sliverstorm 12y agoWhy is this a problem? If X people take bikes into the city center in the morning, and then the same X people take bikes back out in the evening, that sounds balanced to me.
- skybrian 12y agoThat only works if there are enough bikes for each bike to be used only once during the morning or evening commute. If you need to reuse a bike multiple times in one morning (say at 8am, 9am, and 10am) to serve everyone, it has to somehow go where someone will use it.