Open AccessPractical method to improve usage efficiency of bike‐sharing systems
Author(s) -
Lee ChunHee,
Lee JeongWoo,
Jung YungJoon
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
etri journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 2233-7326
pISSN - 1225-6463
DOI - 10.4218/etrij.2021-0408
Subject(s) - relocation , bike sharing , computer science , categorization , transport engineering , promotion (chess) , operations research , engineering , artificial intelligence , politics , law , political science , programming language
Bicycle‐ or bike‐sharing systems (BSSs) have received increasing attention as a secondary transportation mode due to their advantages, for example, accessibility, prevention of air pollution, and health promotion. However, in BSSs, due to bias in bike demands, the bike rebalancing problem should be solved. Various methods have been proposed to solve this problem; however, it is difficult to apply such methods to small cities because bike demand is sparse, and there are many practical issues to solve. Thus, we propose a demand prediction model using multiple classifiers, time grouping, categorization, weather analysis, and station correlation information. In addition, we analyze real‐world relocation data by relocation managers and propose a relocation algorithm based on the analytical results to solve the bike rebalancing problem. The proposed system is compared experimentally with the results obtained by the real relocation managers.