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Re:Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific End... by jpfr on Friday August 29, 2014 @04:00PM (#8244258)
I recently published on the same topic. [1]

In many bike sharing systems (such as in London), there is a daily repeating cycle, where too many people want to get to the city center in the morning and back out in the early evening. You know that will happen. So countermeasures can be taken early on.

[1] Dynamic Vehicle Redistribution and Online Price Incentives in Shared Mobility Systems, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumb...

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Re:Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific End... by sliverstorm on Friday August 29, 2014 @07:47PM (#8245050)
Why is this a problem? If X people take bikes into the city center in the morning, and then the same X people take bikes back out in the evening, that sounds balanced to me.
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Re:Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific End... by skybrian on Friday August 29, 2014 @08:04PM (#8245085)
That only works if there are enough bikes for each bike to be used only once during the morning or evening commute. If you need to reuse a bike multiple times in one morning (say at 8am, 9am, and 10am) to serve everyone, it has to somehow go where someone will use it.
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Re:Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific End... by toomuchtodo on Friday August 29, 2014 @04:30PM (#8244377)
How does London handle that rebalancing then? Physically moving bikes with a lorry?
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Re:Balancing Bike-Share Stations Has Become a Scientific End... by jpfr on Friday August 29, 2014 @04:45PM (#8244429)
At one point they had nearly 30 repositioning trucks in London (2-3 years ago). At Waterloo Station they basically hand them off trucks directly to the arriving customers during rush hour.
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