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Pricing Car-Sharing Services in Multi-Modal Transportation Systems: An Analysis of the Cases of Copenhagen and Milan

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In this article we study the problem of pricing car-sharing services in multi-modal urban transportation systems. The pricing problem takes into account the competition of alternative mobility services such as public transportation and bicycles and incorporates customer preferences by means of utility functions. The problem is formulated as a linear demand-based discrete optimization problem. A case study based on the cities of Copenhagen and Milan suggests that cycling habits and the efficiency of public transportation services have a significant effect on the viability of car-sharing services.

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    Source: www.car2go.com, accessed on January 6th 2018.

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    Assuming the usage of a widely available transportation card named rejsekort.

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A Attributes of the Origin-Destination Pairs Considered

A Attributes of the Origin-Destination Pairs Considered

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Table 3. Time-related attributes of car-sharing (CS), public transportation (PT), and bicycle (B) for the O-D pairs of interest in Copenhagen and Milan.
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Hansen, R.G., Pantuso, G. (2018). Pricing Car-Sharing Services in Multi-Modal Transportation Systems: An Analysis of the Cases of Copenhagen and Milan. In: Cerulli, R., Raiconi, A., Voß, S. (eds) Computational Logistics. ICCL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00898-7_23

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