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On-demand ride-pooling (e.g., UberPool) has recently become popular because of its ability to lower costs for passengers while simultaneously increasing revenue for drivers and aggregation companies. Unlike in Taxi on Demand (ToD) services…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Sanket Shah , Meghna Lowalekar , Pradeep Varakantham

The constrained path optimization (CPO) problem takes the following input: (a) a road network represented as a directed graph, where each edge is associated with a "cost" and a "score" value; (b) a source-destination pair and; (c) a budget…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Kousik Kumar Dutta , Ankita Dewan , Venkata M. V. Gunturi

In this paper we present an algorithm for optimal processing of time-dependent sequenced route queries in road networks, i.e., given a road network where the travel time over an edge is time-dependent and a given ordered list of categories…

We propose a novel non-linear extension to the Orienteering Problem (OP), called the Correlated Orienteering Problem (COP). We use COP to model the planning of informative tours for the persistent monitoring of a spatiotemporal field with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Jingjin Yu , Mac Schwager , Daniela Rus

The emergence of Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) services creates new opportunities to improve the efficiency and reliability of on-demand mobility systems. Unlike human-driven Mobility-on-Demand (MoD), AMoD enables fully centralized…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xinling Li , Gioele Zardini

The Vehicle Routing Problem with pickups, deliveries and spatiotemporal service constraints ($VRPPDSTC$) is a quite challenging algorithmic problem that can be dealt with in either an offline or an online fashion. In this work, we focus on…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Spyros Kontogiannis , Andreas Paraskevopoulos , Christos Zaroliagis

There has been tremendous progress in algorithmic methods for computing driving directions on road networks. Most of that work focuses on time-independent route planning, where it is assumed that the cost on each arc is constant per query.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Moritz Baum , Julian Dibbelt , Thomas Pajor , Dorothea Wagner

Path finding is a well-studied problem in AI, which is often framed as graph search. Any-angle path finding is a technique that augments the initial graph with additional edges to build shorter paths to the goal. Indeed, optimal algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Konstantin Yakovlev , Anton Andreychuk

Leveraging the concept of the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), perimeter control can alleviate network-level congestion by identifying critical intersections and regulating them effectively. Considering the time-varying nature of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Can Chen , Yunping Huang , Hongwei Zhang , Shimin Wang , Martin Guay , Shu-Chien Hsu , Renxin Zhong

Given an origin (O), a destination (D), and a departure time (T), an Origin-Destination (OD) travel time oracle~(ODT-Oracle) returns an estimate of the time it takes to travel from O to D when departing at T. ODT-Oracles serve important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yan Lin , Huaiyu Wan , Jilin Hu , Shengnan Guo , Bin Yang , Youfang Lin , Christian S. Jensen

We investigate the Optimal Obstacle Placement (OOP) problem under uncertainty, framed as the dual of the Optimal Traversal Path problem in the Stochastic Obstacle Scene paradigm. We consider both continuous domains, discretized for…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-09 Li Zhou , Elvan Ceyhan , Polat Charyyev

The Orienteering Problem with Time Window and Delay (\OPTiWinD) is a variant of the online orienteering problem. A series of requests appear in various locations while a vehicle moves within the territory to serve them. Each request has a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Marc Demange , David Ellison , Bertrand Jouve

We present a new and more efficient technique for computing the route that maximizes the probability of on-time arrival in stochastic networks, also known as the path-based stochastic on-time arrival (SOTA) problem. Our primary contribution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Mehrdad Niknami , Samitha Samaranayake

The Team Orienteering Problem (TOP) is an attractive variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The aim is to select customers and at the same time organize the visits for a vehicle fleet so as to maximize the collected profits and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Racha El-Hajj , Duc-Cuong Dang , Aziz Moukrim

The study focuses on estimating and predicting time-varying origin to destination (OD) trip tables for a dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) model. A bi-level optimisation problem is formulated and solved to estimate OD flows from pre-existent…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-13 Sajjad Shafiei , Adriana-Simona Mihaita , Chen Cai

We study the earliest arrival problem in road networks with static time-dependent functions as arc weights. We propose and evaluate the following simple algorithm: (1) average the travel time in k time windows, (2) compute a shortest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Ben Strasser

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services have been an active research topic in recent years. Many studies focused on developing control algorithms to supply efficient services. To cope with a large search space to solve the underlying vehicle…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Fynn Wolf , Roman Engelhardt , Yunfei Zhang , Florian Dandl , Klaus Bogenberger

This paper presents a new method for solving an orienteering problem (OP) by breaking it down into two parts: a knapsack problem (KP) and a traveling salesman problem (TSP). A KP solver is responsible for picking nodes, while a TSP solver…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Wei Liu , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Kang Yang

This paper introduces an extension to the Orienteering Problem (OP), called Clustered Orienteering Problem with Subgroups (COPS). In this variant, nodes are arranged into subgroups, and the subgroups are organized into clusters. A reward is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Luciano E. Almeida , Douglas G. Macharet

This study presents a Bayesian Optimization framework for area- and distance-based time-of-day pricing (TODP) for urban networks. The road pricing optimization problem can reach high level of complexity depending on the pricing scheme…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Renming Liu , Yu Jiang , Carlos Lima Azevedo