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Title Optimizing the Cleaning and Disinfection Scheme for Dockless Shared Bikes
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Subject Optimizing the Cleaning and Disinfection Scheme for Dockless Shared Bikes
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Author Rong Zheng , Hongtai Yang , Lanzhen Jiang, Jinghai
Publish Year 2022
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Diss#. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5702188
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Text Language English
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Library Section Research Article
Abstract Shared bikes can help cities achieve carbon neutrality goals. Cleaning and disinfection are vital procedures of the maintenance of shared bikes, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic because shared bikes could be a transmission intermediary of viruses. This study proposes an optimization model of the cleaning and disinfection scheme of the dockless shared bikes. The disinfection is assumed to be performed at night, when the usage is lowest. By regarding the disinfection staff as traveling salesmen, the model is formulated as an extension of the Multidepot Multiple Traveling Salesman Problem (MDMTSP). The objective function is to minimize the total cost; which consists of the cost associated with the working time and per-capita cost of the disinfection staff. A heuristic algorithm combining k-means clustering and genetic algorithm (K-GA) is adopted to find the lower bound solution. Then, the K-GA-adjustment algorithm has been adopted to find the solutions that satisfy the constraints.