FIG. 1 schematically illustrates the configuration of a car-sharing service system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a subscriber terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure; ...
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FIGS.19and23-25are flow diagrams. As described here, car sharing is offered in a mode in which the cars are not part of a fleet owned by a company that hosts and manages the system (as in the case of a conventional car rental or car sharing company). Rather the cars are owned, fo...
On this very string, the issue of an energy system for heavier vehicles has been discussed in a very interesting post by PriorityX and followed on by Davemart. One could picture a heavy vehicle designed for towing that would use a crogenic drive system, either alone or in combination with ...
FIG. 2 is an entity relationship diagram describing a software system constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosed invention; FIG. 3 is a data flow diagram illustrating the basic operation of a software system constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the disclosed invention;...
system and its causalities. In this regard, following the systems thinking approach, an inclusive causal loop diagram (CLD) is developed in this research to identify and capture the causalities of carsharing adoption, with a focus on population, car manufacturing, the transportation system, and ...
car-sharing; electric vehicles; analytic hierarchy process; cost-benefit analysis; Voronoi diagram; planning system1. Introduction Over the past few decades, road transport has been considered to be a main unsustainable source regarding its large and increasing contribution to high oil dependency and ...
Prospect theory was used to analyze the bounded rational behavior characteristics of parking space owners and car travelers, and a value function model with rental price as the reference point was established. Combined with the survey data of the Xinhuangcheng district in Nanchang City, China, the...
2.2. Data Overview The data used in this research are provided by Hangzhou EVnet Co., the operator of the "Chefenxiang" car sharing system in Hangzhou City. The data contains 31,446 rental records with the corresponding vehicle GPS data from December 2013 to June 2015. The GPS data has ...