Article ID: | iaor20127582 |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 37 |
End Page Number: | 61 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Journal: | RAIRO - Operations Research |
Authors: | Meunier Frdric, Benchimol Mike, Benchimol Pascal, Chappert Benot, de la Taille Arnaud, Laroche Fabien, Robinet Ludovic |
Keywords: | allocation: resources, combinatorial optimization, programming: dynamic |
This paper is motivated by operating self service transport systems that flourish nowadays. In cities where such systems have been set up with bikes, trucks travel to maintain a suitable number of bikes per station. It is natural to study a version of the