Bike sharing systems are emerging all over the world as a cheap, green, and healthy mode of public transit. While there is great variety in their implementation, at their core they are all similar: they consist of bike stations, each containing a number of docking points, from which bicycles may be borrowed and to which they may be returned. These systems suffer from a number of open problems: ...

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Bike sharing systems have been installed in many cities around the world and are increasing in popularity. A major operational cost driver in these systems is rebalancing the bikes over time such that the appropriate number of bikes and open docks are available to users. We combine two aspects that have previously been handled separately in the literature: determining service level requirements...

Bike-sharing transportation systems have been well studied from a top-down viewpoint, either for an optimal conception of the system, or for a better statistical understanding of their working mechanisms in the aim of the optimization of the management strategy. Yet bottom-up approaches that could include behavior of users have not been well studied so far. We propose an agent-based model for t...