Rebalancing and Fleet Sizing of Mobility-on-Demand Networks with Combined Simulation, Optimization and Queueing Network Analysis

Bazan P, Djanatliev A, Lauer C, Pruckner M, German R (2018)

Publication Language: English

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article

Publication year: 2018

Publisher: IEEE Press

City/Town: Piscataway, NJ, USA

Pages Range: 1527-1538

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference

Event location: Göteborg SE

ISBN: 978-1-5386-6572-5

URI: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8632428&isnumber=8632166

DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2018.8632428

Abstract

Car rental companies have to operate the fleet of vehicles considering a cost effective fleet sizing and rebalancing of the vehicles. Additionally, they have to ensure a good vehicle availability at the rental stations. We present a simulation model combined with optimization and queueing network analysis for mobility-on-demand networks with one-way car sharing. The system is modeled as a closed queueing network. On the one hand, this allows an estimation of the vehicle availability; on the other hand, constraints for the optimization model can be derived from the mathematical equations of the queuing network model. To optimize the total revenue, the optimization model considers price incentives for customer trips and cost of empty trips resulting in a mixed-integer linear programming problem. The simulation uses the optimization component for an optimized operation of the mobility-on-demand networks and computes the optimal fleet size, the cost of empty runs, and the vehicle availability.

Authors with CRIS profile

Peter Bazan Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Anatoli Djanatliev Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Christoph Lauer Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems) Marco Pruckner Juniorprofessur für Energieinformatik Reinhard German Computer Science 7 (Computer Networks and Communication Systems)

Related research project(s)

Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems (MACS) Jan. 1, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2019

How to cite

APA:

Bazan, P., Djanatliev, A., Lauer, C., Pruckner, M., & German, R. (2018). Rebalancing and Fleet Sizing of Mobility-on-Demand Networks with Combined Simulation, Optimization and Queueing Network Analysis. In M. Rabe, A. A. Juan, N. Mustafee, A. Skoogh, S. Jain, and B. Johansson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 1527-1538). Göteborg, SE: Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press.

MLA:

Bazan, Peter, et al. "Rebalancing and Fleet Sizing of Mobility-on-Demand Networks with Combined Simulation, Optimization and Queueing Network Analysis." Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference 2018 (WSC 2018), Göteborg Ed. M. Rabe, A. A. Juan, N. Mustafee, A. Skoogh, S. Jain, and B. Johansson, Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE Press, 2018. 1527-1538.

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