Carsharing operation optimization with the comprehensive consideration of economic and social benefits.

ABSTRACT: Carsharing is regarded as a new mode of transportation that can meet the diversity of travel demands. This study develops a bi-level programming model to design operating strategies aiming to maximize economic and social benefits by determining the site location, number, size and carsharing pricing. In the upper model, a new mixed integer linear programming model is pro-posed to plan the site location, number, size, and pricing of carsharing jointly. Based on the stochastic user equilibrium principle, the lower model is a variational inequality model of travel mode and route choice, to understand the evolution of the transportation system structure after the introduction of shared cars. The results of the case study show the designed scheme can increase the economic benefits of carsharing

SUBMITTER: Zhong Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11835248 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature