China's Hangzhou Public Bicycle

Station Segmentation with an Improved K-Means Algorithm for Hangzhou Public Bicycle System

In China, Hangzhou is the first city to establish the Public Bicycle System. Now, the system has been the largest bikesharing program in the world. The software of Hangzhou Public Bicycle System was developed by our team. There are many and many technology problems in the decision of intelligent dispatch. Among of these problems, determining how to segment the stations into several sections to ...

A Public Bicycle Sharing System Considering Renting and Middle Stations

Recently, public bicycle sharing system (PBSS) has become one of the most favorite urban transportation systems that can help governments to decrease environmental problems such as pollution and traffic. This paper studies a sharing system that includes two types of stations. The first category contains stations that users can rent or return back bicycles and each bicycle can be rented by any n...

Three Digital Platforms: Hangzhou Public Library Widens Access to Resources

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 140–159. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This article investigates the “three digital platforms” of Hangzhou Public Library 杭州图书馆 through a discussion of information inequality, the digital divide, and community informatics. After an introduction to the context of ...

Bicycle Access to Public Libraries: a Survey of Pennsylvania Public Libraries and Their Accessibility to Patrons Arriving Via Bicycle

Balancing public bicycle sharing system by defining response rates for destinations

Public Bicycle Sharing System (PBSS) is used as a way to reduce traffic and pollution in cities. Its performance is related to availability of bicycles for picking up and free docks to return them. Existence of different demand types leads to the emergence of imbalanced stations. Here, we try to balance inventory of stations via defining maximal response rates for each type of rental request. I...