Research on Big Data Driven Large-Scale Bike-Sharing Systems and Associated Bike Rebalancing

Recently, big data, could computing and internet of things provide some new information technologies for organization and management of complex systems, and they have caused multifaceted changes on organization framework and operations mechanism of enterprises. Based on this, we first construct a new stochastic model for a big data driven large-scale bike-sharing system, which expresses the important role played by big data, and describes the operations mechanism of the large-scale bike-sharing system, and specifically, the rebalancing of bikes in various stations in terms of trucks. Then, we present a mean-field limit theory, which is applied to analyzing the big data driven large-scale bike-sharing system, including establishing a time-inhomogeneous queueing system by means of the mean field theory, and setting up the mean-field equations through the time-inhomogeneous queueing system; providing an empirical measure process by means of a nonlinear birth-death process, giving algorithms for computing the fixed point in terms of a segmented structural birth-death processes, and computing the average number of bikes in each station; and providing numerical examples to analyze how the steady average number of bikes in each station depends on some key parameters of the bike-sharing system. Using these results, this paper analyzes physical effect of big data on performance of the large-scale bike-sharing. Therefore, this paper gives a promising research direction of stochastic model in the study of large-scale bike-sharing systems.