One-way car-sharing system based on recharging strategy

The recent advent of internet has promoted the development of sharing economy in many fields, ranging from trip, accommodation. In the field of car-sharing, many studies have been dedicated to the scheduling problem of car-sharing, especially for one-way station-based car-sharing systems in which users are able to return the rented car to any available stations. However, most of current studies have focused exclusively on fuel car-sharing instead of electric car-sharing. For the sake of environmental benefits, most car-sharing companies seek to use electric vehicles instead of non-electric vehicles. Compared with non-electric vehicles, electric vehicles need consider electricity and recharging time, which complicates the operating system. To simplify the problem setting of the electric car-sharing system, most of previous studies have ignored the recharging problem. In this paper, we propose a one-way station-based electric car-sharing system with recharging using Mixed Integer Linear Programming. At last, we do a case study of Jiading District, Shanghai, China to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed model.