Project: Models for ecological, economical, efficient, electric car-sharing

Acronym	E4-share (Reference Number: 4123762)
Duration	01/09/2014 - 31/08/2017
Project Topic	Due to growing awareness and concerns regarding pollution, sustainability and living quality, cities are confronted with severe challenges and need to manage a transformation process that ultimately shall lead to fewer emissions and less energy consumption while increasing the quality of public space available to citizens. At the same time, however, citizens ask for flexible solutions that allow to efficiently use different modes of transport without increasing their planning overhead. Among others, car-sharing systems and the usage of electric cars are currently increasingly gaining popularity to meet some of these challenges. In e4-share, we will lay the foundations for efficient and economically viable electric car-sharing systems by studying and solving the optimization problems arising in their design and operations. A main goal is to derive generic methods and strategies for optimized planning and operating in particularly for flexible variants which best meet preferences of customers but impose nontrivial challenges to operators. We will develop novel, exact and heuristic, numerical methods for finding suitable solutions to the optimization problems arising at the various planning levels as well as new, innovative approaches considering these levels simultaneously.
Network	JPI Urban Europe
Call	JPI Urban Europe 2nd Call

Number	Name	Role	Country
4123762	Universität Wien - Institut für Statistik und Operations Research	Coordinator	Austria
4149964	iC consulenten Ziviltechniker GesmbH	Partner	Austria
4151822	Université Libre de Bruxelles - Département d'informatique	Partner	Belgium
4163498	AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH	Partner	Austria
4164523	ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - University of Bologna - Deaprtment of Electric, Electronic and Information Engineering	Partner	Italy