Designing Strategy for Resolving Maldistribution of Vehicles in One-Way Car-Sharing through Active Trip Request to Potential Users

Kotone Senju, Teruhiro Mizumoto, Hirohiko Suwa, Yutaka Arakawa, Keiichi Yasumoto

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Abstract

Recently, one-way car-sharing service that allows a user to drop the vehicle off at the destination has been started. However, it has not been as popular as expected mainly because it cannot assure the existence of an available vehicle at the start station or a vacant parking slot at the destination station. At this moment, the company staff are responsible for moving the vehicles to certain stations manually. Therefore, it is very costly. In order to reduce costs and make more efficient use of vehicles in one-way car-sharing service, we propose to involve a future potential user to move vehicles. We assume that there exist some requested one-way trips. Our method inserts a new trip among the existing trips for maximizing the number of successful trips. This trip is called 'a system request trip.' We assume that the system request trip can be realized by changing a future schedule or asking future potential users who want to get some rewards. In this paper, we analyzed how each user uses vehicles in one-way car-sharing service by using the past data of demonstration experiment conducted by a car-sharing company in Tokyo, Japan. Based on the analysis result, we examined how to request each user.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages83-88
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538632277
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018 - Athens, Greece
Duration: Mar 19 2018Mar 23 2018

Publication series

Name2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, PerCom Workshops 2018
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityAthens
Period3/19/183/23/18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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