Continuous-time revenue management in carparks : Part two: Refining the PDE

Papayiannis, Andreas and Johnson, Paul and Yumashev, Dmitry and Duck, Peter (2013) Continuous-time revenue management in carparks : Part two: Refining the PDE. In: ICORES 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems :. UNSPECIFIED, ESP, pp. 76-81. ISBN 9789898565402

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Abstract

In this paper, we study optimal revenue management applied to carparks, with the primary objective to maximize revenues under a continuous-time framework. This work is an extension to (Papayiannis et al., 2012) where the authors developed a Partial Differential Equation (PDE) model that could solve for the rate at which cash is generated through an infinitesimal time. However, in practice, carpark managers charge customers per day or per hour which is a finite period of time. Unfortunately, this situation was currently not captured by this previous work. Therefore, our current work attempts to reformulate the existing PDE in a way that it does capture the revenue that is generated within any finite time interval of length ΔT. The new model is compared against the Monte Carlo (MC) approach for several choices of ΔT; the results are remarkable as the improvement in computation speed and efficiency are significant. Since, the algorithm in the PDE still does not solve the 'exact' problem, a method is proposed to marry the benefits of the PDE with those of the MC approach. Our results are prominent as the optimal values generated in this case have shown to be extremely close to the MC ones while the computation times are kept to a minimum.

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?? expected revenuerejection policymanagement science and operations research ??
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84462
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Deposited On:
30 Jan 2017 16:36
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