Smart Recommendations for Renting Bikes in Bike Sharing Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12322v1
• Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:29:33 GMT
• Title: Smart Recommendations for Renting Bikes in Bike Sharing Systems
• Authors: Holger Billhardt, Alberto Fern\'andez, Sascha Ossowski
• Abstract summary: Vehicle-sharing systems have become increasingly popular in big cities in recent years. One of their advantages is their availability, e.g., the possibility of taking (or leaving) a vehicle almost anywhere in a city. Agglutination problems -- where, due to usage patterns, available vehicles are concentrated in certain areas, whereas no vehicles are available in others -- are quite common in such systems. We present and compare strategies for recommending stations to users who wish to rent or return bikes in station-based bike-sharing systems.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vehicle-sharing systems -- such as bike-, car-, or motorcycle-sharing systems -- have become increasingly popular in big cities in recent years. On the one hand, they provide a cheaper and environmentally friendlier means of transportation than private cars, and on the other hand, they satisfy the individual mobility demands of citizens better than traditional public transport systems. One of their advantages in this regard is their availability, e.g., the possibility of taking (or leaving) a vehicle almost anywhere in a city. This availability obviously depends on different strategic and operational management decisions and policies, such as the dimension of the fleet or the (re)distribution of vehicles. Agglutination problems -- where, due to usage patterns, available vehicles are concentrated in certain areas, whereas no vehicles are available in others -- are quite common in such systems, and need to be dealt with. Research has been dedicated to this problem, specifying different techniques to reduce imbalanced situations. In this paper, we present and compare strategies for recommending stations to users who wish to rent or return bikes in station-based bike-sharing systems. Our first contribution is a novel recommendation strategy based on queuing theory that recommends stations based on their utility to the user in terms of lower distance and higher probability of finding a bike or slot. Then, we go one step further, defining a strategy that recommends stations by combining the utility of a particular user with the utility of the global system, measured in terms of the improvement in the distribution of bikes and slots with respect to the expected future demand, with the aim of implicitly avoiding or alleviating balancing problems. We present several experiments to evaluate our proposal with real data from the bike sharing system BiciMAD in Madrid.

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