A Decision Model for Free-Floating Car-Sharing Providers for Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains

Wei Zhou, Haixia Wang, Victor Shi and Xiding Chen
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Wei Zhou: School of International Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China
Haixia Wang: School of Business Administration, Guangdong University of Finance, Guangzhou 510320, China
Victor Shi: Lazaridis School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON N2L3C5, Canada
Xiding Chen: School of Finance and Trade, Wenzhou Business College, Wenzhou 325035, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-18

Abstract: For green and sustainable supply chains, transportation resilience is a critical issue. Car Sharing is an effective way to improve transportation resilience. The emerging car-sharing industry continues to attract a lot of investment, but few companies in the industry are profitable. Indeed, numerical experiments based on dynamic models in this paper showed that it was challenging for a car-sharing company to be profitable. As the numerical experiments followed the fractional factorial designs, from the factor analysis, it is suggested that a new car-sharing business first study the external business environment. Even if the external environment is sound, the company still needs to pay attention to internal operations management. Moreover, when the company decides the number of cars it owns and the fleet size, it should consider factors including variable daily expenses, maintenance costs, salvage value, and commission.

Keywords: car-sharing; green supply chain; sustainability; supply chain resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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