Assessing shared vehicle popularities

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions executable by a computer system to perform operations comprising:

• collecting information about respective geographic positions of users using shared vehicles;
• determining, for each one of the respective geographic positions, popularity indexes of the shared vehicles in an area corresponding to the geographic position comprising
• determining a first popularity index by calculating a difference between a quantity of the shared vehicles that are stationed and a quantity of the shared vehicles that are leased out in the area corresponding to the geographic position,
• determining a second popularity index by calculating a difference between the quantity of the shared vehicles that are stationed and a quantity of the shared vehicles that are returned in the area corresponding to the geographic position, and
• determining a third popularity index by calculating a difference between the quantity of the shared vehicles that are leased out and the quantity of the shared vehicles that are returned in the area corresponding to the geographic position, and taking an absolute value of the difference;
• determining, for each one of the respective geographic positions and based on the popularity indexes, a popularity score of the shared vehicles within the area corresponding to the geographic position;
• mapping the popularity scores to corresponding color values;
• generating a dynamic presentation of the areas with visual attributes reflecting a change in the popularity scores of the shared vehicles within the areas, wherein generating the dynamic presentation comprises
• automatically selecting a subset of the respective geographic positions associated with the highest popularity scores,
• generating the dynamic presentation of the subset of the respective geographic positions, and
• rendering the dynamic presentation in accordance with the color values to generate the visual attributes for the subset of the respective geographic positions, wherein the visual attributes comprise color attributes where a red color indicates a high popularity score and where a green color indicates a low popularity score;
• presenting, on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a display device, the dynamic presentation to an operator stationing the shared vehicles at the respective geographic positions;
• and
• receiving, responsive to the dynamic presentation and based on operator input, information specifying one or more of the respective geographic positions in the subset of geographic positions as stationing areas.

A computer-implemented system, comprising:

• one or more computers;
• and
• one or more computer memory devices interoperably coupled with the one or more computers and having tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable media storing one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more computers, perform one or more operations comprising:
• collecting information about respective geographic positions of users using shared vehicles;
• determining, for each one of the respective geographic positions, popularity indexes of the shared vehicles in an area corresponding to the geographic position comprising
• determining a first popularity index by calculating a difference between a quantity of the shared vehicles that are stationed and a quantity of the shared vehicles that are leased out in the area corresponding to the geographic position,
• determining a second popularity index by calculating a difference between the quantity of the shared vehicles that are stationed and a quantity of the shared vehicles that are returned in the area corresponding to the geographic position, and
• determining a third popularity index by calculating a difference between the quantity of the shared vehicles that are leased out and the quantity of the shared vehicles that are returned in the area corresponding to the geographic position, and taking an absolute value of the difference;
• determining, for each one of the respective geographic positions and based on the popularity indexes, a popularity score of the shared vehicles within the area corresponding to the geographic position;
• mapping the popularity scores to corresponding color values;
• generating a dynamic presentation of the areas with visual attributes reflecting a change in the popularity scores of the shared vehicles within the areas, wherein generating the dynamic presentation comprises
• automatically selecting a subset of the respective geographic positions associated with the highest popularity scores,
• generating the dynamic presentation of the subset of the respective geographic positions, and
• rendering the dynamic presentation in accordance with the color values to generate the visual attributes for the subset of the respective geographic positions, wherein the visual attributes comprise color attributes where a red color indicates a high popularity score and where a green color indicates a low popularity score;
• presenting, on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a display device, the dynamic presentation to an operator stationing the shared vehicles at the respective geographic positions;
• and
• receiving, responsive to the dynamic presentation and based on operator input, information specifying one or more of the respective geographic positions in the subset of geographic positions as stationing areas.