Research on the pre-peak scheduling problem of public bicycle system with branch-and-price algorithm
by Yang Peng; Bin Liu
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing (IJWMC), Vol. 12, No. 3, 2017

Abstract: Bicycle-sharing system has got fast development in recent years; the challenge associated with its operation is reposition or scheduling the bicycle because of the fluctuating demands for bicycles and for vacant lockers at each station. This paper puts forward a pre-scheduling strategy for each node in a certain period of time before the peak period, and the solution to optimise the routing cost. A novel vehicle routing problem with revenue, and improved a branch-and-price algorithm to solve the problem are also presented. The method was applied to an instance of real operation data, and the validity of the methodology has been verified.

Online publication date: Thu, 29-Jun-2017

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