Repositioning Bikes with Carrier Vehicles and Bike Trailers in Bike Sharing Systems

Bike Sharing Systems (BSSs) have been adopted in many major cities of the\nworld due to traffic congestion and carbon emissions. Although there have been\napproaches to exploiting either bike trailers via crowdsourcing or carrier\nvehicles to reposition bikes in the ``right'' stations in the ``right'' time,\nthey do not jointly consider the usage of both bike trailers and carrier\nvehicles. In this paper, we aim to take advantage of both bike trailers and\ncarrier vehicles to reduce the loss of demand with regard to the crowdsourcing\nof bike trailers and the fuel cost of carrier vehicles. In the experiment, we\nexhibit that our approach outperforms baselines in several datasets from bike\nsharing companies.\n