Mabel C. Chou

Bike-Repositioning Using Volunteers: Crowd Sourcing with Choice Restriction

Motivated by the Bike Angels Program in New York's Citi Bike and Boston's Blue Bikes, we study the use of (registered) volunteers to re-position empty bikes for riders in a bike sharing system. We propose a method that can be used to deploy the volunteers in the system, based on the real time distri…