Decision support for environmental-friendly vehicle relocations in freefloating car sharing systems

The case of car2go

Journal article (2015)

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F. Schulte Universität Hamburg
Stefan Voß Universität Hamburg
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Simulation Relocation Car sharing Free-floating car sharing Empty repositioning One-way car sharing Automobile product-service systems
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01-01-2015

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English

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Abstract

Current market figures from Europe seem to indicate that recently introduced free-floating car sharing (FFCS) systems can be a breakthrough for the car sharing idea. Regardless of their success, FFCS systems face significant regional demand fluctuations, raising the need for vehicle relocations with novel requirements for the product-service system (PSS). This study aims to introduce an integrated decision support approach for cost and emission efficient vehicle relocation in FFCS based on real-world data from car2go. The proposed approach appears to be effective and have a significant potential to reduce costs and related emissions.