英文摘要 |
This study investigates the planning of public bicycle rental system in Taichung City, Taiwan. We use Taichung’s MRTstations as the candidates of bike rental station. By Combining the data from the Ministry of Transportation and other literatures,the demand of public bicycle can be estimated for each candidate station. The model tries to find the best locations to set up bicyclerental stations and the number of bicycle required for each station. This study will consider the following costs: bicycle acquisitioncost, land cost of bicycle rental station, replacement cost, and bicycle rearrangement cost (i.e. a daily operation cost for arrangingbicycle back to its initial location). The objective of this study is to minimize total cost by selecting suitable bicycle rental stationsand arranging necessary bicycles for each station. In this study, we first develop a mathematical model and then construct a heuristicalgorithm to solve the problem by using the simulated annealing logic. In addition, a sensitivity analysis is also conducted byconsidering different land costs and different distances required between stations. |