کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4960159 1445967 2017 35 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Dynamic booking control for car rental revenue management: A decomposition approach
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
کنترل رزرو پویا برای مدیریت درآمد اجاره ماشین: رویکرد تجزیه
کلمات کلیدی
مدیریت درآمد، اجاره اتومبیل، برنامه ریزی پویا تقریبی تجزیه،
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر علوم کامپیوتر (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper considers dynamic booking control for a single-station car rental revenue management problem. Different from conventional airline revenue management, car rental revenue management needs to take into account not only the existing bookings but also the lengths of the existing rentals and the capacity flexibility via fleet shuttling, which yields a high-dimensional system state space. In this paper, we formulate the dynamic booking control problem as a discrete-time stochastic dynamic program over an infinite horizon. Such a model is computationally intractable. We propose a decomposition approach and develop two heuristics. The first heuristic is an approximate dynamic program (ADP) which approximates the value function using the value functions of the decomposed problems. The second heuristic is constructed directly from the optimal booking limits computed from the decomposed problems, which is more scalable compared to the ADP heuristic. Our numerical study suggests that the performances of both heuristics are close to optimum and significantly outperform the commonly used probabilistic non-linear programming (PNLP) heuristic in most of the instances. The dominant performance of our second heuristic is evidenced in a case study using sample data from a major car rental company in the UK.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research - Volume 256, Issue 3, 1 February 2017, Pages 850-867
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