On determining optimal fleet size and vehicle transfer policy for a car rental company

DOI10.1016/J.COR.2009.05.010zbMATH Open1175.90227OpenAlexW2015050917MaRDI QIDQ732903FDOQ732903

Authors Zhaolin Li, Feng Tao

Publication date 15 October 2009

Published in Computers \& Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2009.05.010

zbMATH Keywords

Markov decision processautomobile rentalfleet size managementvehicle transfer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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