Mechanism Design with Predicted Task Revenue for Bike Sharing Systems

Authors

  • Hongtao Lv Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Chaoli Zhang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Zhenzhe Zheng Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Tie Luo Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Fan Wu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • Guihai Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i02.5589

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.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Lv, H., Zhang, C., Zheng, Z., Luo, T., Wu, F., & Chen, G. (2020). Mechanism Design with Predicted Task Revenue for Bike Sharing Systems. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(02), 2144-2151. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i02.5589

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AAAI Technical Track: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms