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Two Flow-Based Approaches for the Static Relocation Problem in Carsharing Systems
In a carsharing system, a fleet of cars is distributed at stations in an
urban area, customers can take and return cars at any time and station. For
operating such a system in a satisfactory way, the stations have to keep a good
ratio between the numbers of free places and cars in each station. This leads
to the problem of relocating cars between stations, which can be modeled within
the framework of a metric task system. In this paper, we focus on the Static
Relocation Problem, where the system has to be set into a certain state,
outgoing from the current state. We present two approaches to solve this
problem, a fast heuristic approach and an exact integer programming based
method using flows in time-expanded networks, and provide some computational
results.Comment: 12 pages, 1 tabl