Shared mobility systems

Gilbert Laporte (1) , Frédéric Meunier (2) , Roberto Wolfler Calvo (3)

1 CIRRELT - Laboratoire CIRRELT Université Laval Quebec
2 CERMICS - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Mathématiques et Calcul Scientifique
3 LIPN - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord

Shared mobility systems for bicycles and cars have grown in popularity in recent years and have attracted the attention of the operational research community. Researchers have investigated several problems arising at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. This survey paper classifies the relevant literature under five main headings: station location, fleet dimensioning, station inventory, rebalancing incentives, and vehicle repositioning. It closes with some open research questions.

Keywords: shared mobility systems; bicycle and car sharing; fleet dimensioning; inventory rebalancing; vehicle repositioning; survey

Domains: Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]; Operations Research [math.OC]

Gilbert Laporte, Frédéric Meunier, Roberto Wolfler Calvo. Shared mobility systems. 4OR: A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research, 2015, 13 (4), pp.341-360. ⟨10.1007/s10288-015-0301-z⟩. ⟨hal-01792763⟩