USER-DISTRIBUTED SHARED VEHICLE SYSTEM

摘要

A vehicle resource load in a shared-vehicle system 100 is balanced. A central home-station 104 is provided and allocated a number of vehicles 102. A number of day-stations 106 are associated with the central home-station 104 with facilities for docking and reenergizing the vehicles 102. The vehicles 102 are distributed to one or more of the day stations 106 via operation by distribution-users 108 with journeys originating from the central home-station 104 and terminating at the day-stations 106. The vehicles 102 are provided for limited term use by day-users 110 at the day-stations 106 with a requirement that the vehicles 102 be returned to the day-stations 106 by the end of a respective limited term. The vehicles 102 are returned to the central home-station 104 upon expiration of the limited term use via operation by the distribution-users 108 with journeys originating from the day-stations 106 and terminating at the central home-station 104.