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The multi-vehicle dial-a-ride problem (mDaRP) is a fundamental vehicle routing problem with pickups and deliveries, widely applicable in ride-sharing, economics, and transportation. Given a set of $n$ locations, $h$ vehicles of identical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jingyang Zhao , Mingyu Xiao

The k-forest problem is a common generalization of both the k-MST and the dense-$k$-subgraph problems. Formally, given a metric space on $n$ vertices $V$, with $m$ demand pairs $\subseteq V \times V$ and a ``target'' $k\le m$, the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-05 Anupam Gupta , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Viswanath Nagarajan , R. Ravi

The paper addresses a variant of the Dial-A-Ride problem with additional features. It is referred to as the DARP with driver preferences, which attempts to determine a solution more driver-oriented by designing a short trip in a specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Sana Ouasaid , Mohammed Saddoune

Dial-a-Ride problems have been proposed to model the challenge to consolidate passenger transportation requests with a fleet of shared vehicles. The line-based Dial-a-Ride problem (LiDARP) is a variant where the passengers are transported…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Antonio Lauerbach , Kendra Reiter , Marie Schmidt

In the classic Dial-a-Ride Problem, a server travels in some metric space to serve requests for rides. Each request has a source, destination, and release time. We study a variation of this problem where each request also has a revenue that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Ananya Christman , William Forcier

Motivated by the popularity of online ride and delivery services, we study natural variants of classical multi-vehicle minimum latency problems where the objective is to route a set of vehicles located at depots to serve request located on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Abhimanyu Das , Sreenivas Gollapudi , Anthony Kim , Debmalya Panigrahi , Chaitanya Swamy

Modular vehicles (MV) possess the ability to physically connect/disconnect with each other and travel in platoon with less energy consumption. A fleet of demand-responsive transit vehicles with such technology can serve passengers door to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhexi Fu , Joseph Y. J. Chow

On-demand ridepooling systems offer flexible services pooling multiple passengers into one vehicle, complementing traditional bus services. We propose a transportation system combining the spatial aspects of a fixed sequence of bus stops…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Kendra Reiter , Marie Schmidt , Michael Stiglmayr

Ridepooling services require efficient optimization algorithms to simultaneously plan routes and pool users in shared rides. We consider a static dial-a-ride problem (DARP) where a series of origin-destination requests have to be assigned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Daniela Gaul , Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr

Ridepooling services play an increasingly important role in modern transportation systems. With soaring demand and growing fleet sizes, the underlying route planning problems become increasingly challenging. In this context, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Daniela Gaul , Kathrin Klamroth , Christian Pfeiffer , Arne Schulz , Michael Stiglmayr

Ride-sharing is an essential aspect of modern urban mobility. In this paper, we consider a classical problem in ride-sharing - the Multi-Vehicle Dial-a-Ride Problem (Multi-Vehicle DaRP). Given a fleet of vehicles with a fixed capacity…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Kelin Luo , Alexandre M. Florio , Syamantak Das , Xiangyu Guo

The Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) is an optimization problem that involves determining optimal routes and schedules for several vehicles to pick up and deliver items at minimum cost. Motivated by real-world carpooling and crowdshipping…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-24 Boshuai Zhao , Kai Wang , Wenchao Wei , Roel Leus

A ride sharing problem is considered where we are given a graph, whose edges are equipped with a travel cost, plus a set of objects, each associated with a transportation request given by a pair of origin and destination nodes. A vehicle…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Angelo Fanelli , Gianluigi Greco

The ridesharing problem is that given a set of trips, each trip consists of an individual, a vehicle of the individual and some requirements, select a subset of trips and use the vehicles of selected trips to deliver all individuals to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Qian-Ping Gu , Jiajian Leo Liang , Guochuan Zhang

In this paper, we present the Electric Mobility Dial-a-Ride Problem (EM-DARP), which extends the Electric Vehicle Dial-a-Ride Problem (EV-DARP) to better accommodate human-focused mobility services. The problem involves utilizing a fleet of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-27 Mostafa Emam , Björn Martens , Thomas Rottmann , Matthias Gerdts

Accurately predicting the real-life performance of algorithms solving the Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) in the context of Mobility on Demand (MoD) systems with ridesharing requires evaluating them on representative instances. However, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-31 David Fiedler , Jan Mrkos

In this paper, we consider multistopping problems for finite discrete time sequences $X_1,...,X_n$. $m$-stops are allowed and the aim is to maximize the expected value of the best of these $m$ stops. The random variables are neither assumed…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Andreas Faller , Ludger Rüschendorf

We consider the problem of scheduling $n$ precedence-constrained jobs on $m$ uniformly-related machines in the presence of an arbitrary, fixed communication delay $\rho$. We consider a model that allows job duplication, i.e. processing of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Biswaroop Maiti , Rajmohan Rajaraman , David Stalfa , Zoya Svitkina , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

We study a primitive vehicle routing-type problem in which a fleet of $n$unit speed robots start from a point within a non-obtuse triangle $\Delta$, where $n \in \{1,2,3\}$. The goal is to design robots' trajectories so as to visit all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Konstantinos Georgiou , Somnath Kundu , Pawel Pralat

Integrating demand-responsive mobility services with transit systems is recognized as a practical and effective strategy to mitigate their impact on traffic congestion and the environment. This study develops an efficient hybrid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Yumeng Fang , Tai-Yu Ma
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