Mechanism Design with Predicted Task Revenue for Bike Sharing Systems

Abstract

Bike sharing systems have been widely deployed around the world in recent years. A core problem in such systems is to reposition the bikes so that the distribution of bike supply is reshaped to better match the dynamic bike demand. When the bike-sharing company or platform is able to predict the revenue of each reposition task based on historic data, an additional constraint is to cap the payment for each task below its predicted revenue. In this paper, we propose an incentive mechanism called TruPreTar to incentivize users to park bicycles at locations desired by the platform toward rebalancing supply and demand. TruPreTar possesses four important economic and computational properties such as truthfulness and budget feasibility. Furthermore, we prove that even when the payment budget is tight, the total revenue still exceeds or equals the budget. Otherwise, TruPreTar achieves 2-approximation as compared to the optimal (revenue-maximizing) solution, which is close to the lower bound of at least √2 that we also prove. Using an industrial dataset obtained from a large bike-sharing company, our experiments show that TruPreTar is effective in rebalancing bike supply and demand and, as a result, generates high revenue that outperforms several benchmark mechanisms.

Department(s)

Computer Science

Second Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Comments

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant 6141A02033702

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-157735835-0

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

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© 2024 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2020

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