Shared Mobility

Since Hurricane Katrina, there has been an increasing focus on disaster relief efforts in the United States. In this paper, the authors examine the progression of transportation management under emergency conditions and opportunities for addressing disasters by leveraging the sharing economy. The sharing economy mobilizes the unused capacity and resources of individuals through mobile and Internet platforms. Notable examples include mobility and the housing sectors. The authors argue here that there is an opportunity to improve disaster preparedness, response, and recovery by...

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology enables plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) to act as controllable loads and distributed energy resources for power systems. However, these resources, under the context of Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) market, have yet to be fully exploited for the grid services. This paper investigates how providing energy service from the shared PEVs affects both the power and transportation systems. We consider a shared MoD platform where PEVs can choose to provide either the V2G service or the traveling service when they are rebalanced to future high demand areas. In this...

Most cars carry one person and are used for less than one hour per day. A more economically rational approach would be to use vehicles more intensively. Carsharing, in which people pay a subscription plus a per-use fee, is one means of doing so. Carsharing may be organized through affinity groups, large employers, transit operators, neighborhood groups, or large carsharing businesses. While carsharing does not offer convenient access to vehicles, it does provide users with a large range of vehicles, fewer ownership responsibilities, and less cost (if vehicles are not used intensively)....

CarLink is the use of short-term rental vehicles and intelligent communication and reservation technologies to facilitate shared vehicle access at transit stations or other activity centers for making local trips. CarLink vehicles, owned and operated by a transit district or third-party service provider, can be used by different drivers at many locations throughout a day. Using advanced communication and reservation system technologies, they can be reserved in advance or rented automatically upon arrival at a CarLink...