Unlock the Sharing Economy: Integrating Carsharing and Parking Sharing Services

Parking-sharing and carsharing are two growing services in sharing economy, which manage shared infrastructures/facilities with the aim of increasing resource utilization efficiency. Currently, parking-sharing and carsharing platforms are operated independently such that only their own customers can use the service. A common issue with these emerging platforms is that the demand densities over time and space affect the profitability substantially. To increase profit, integrating existing parking-sharing and carsharing platforms can be a promising solution. This study models and compares these the independent-operation and collaborative-operation schemes, and quantifies the potential benefits from collaborative-operation against independent-operation. Multiple groups of decision makers, i.e., share-parking space suppliers, platform operators and travelers are modelled together with these two platforms. In this context, the authors discuss the properties of parking and carsharing user choice equilibria. The profit-maximizing platform pricing and supply strategies are also explored. The numerical example illustrates that collaborative-operation scheme can earn higher profit for the operators.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE50 Standing Committee on Transportation Demand Management.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Transportation Research Board

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  • Authors:
    • Jian, Sisi
    • Liu, Wei
    • Wang, Xiaolei
    • Yang, Hai
    • Waller, S Travis
  • Conference:
  • Date: 2019

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Media Type: Digital/other
  • Features: Figures; References; Tables;
  • Pagination: 21p

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 01697870
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 19-04697
  • Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
  • Created Date: Mar 1 2019 3:51PM