Incentive Design for One-way Car-sharing Based on Mechanism Design

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel car sharing algorithm which changes OD (Origin-Destination) and departure time to the user in exchange for the charge discount, and aims to prevent the bias of the number of vehicles in one-way car-sharing stations. First, a one-way car sharing model based on discrete event systems is described. Next, we will explain how to calculate the optimal combination of the origin, destination, and the departure time in real time, and the method of deciding on incentives that meet strategy-proofness and individual rationality based on mechanism design. Finally, the increase in demand acceptance by the proposed method is confirmed by numerical simulation.