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Car sharing is one the pillars of a smart transportation infrastructure, as it is expected to reduce traffic congestion, parking demands and pollution in our cities. From the point of view of demand modelling, car sharing is a weak signal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Chiara Boldrini , Raffaele Bruno , Haitam Laarabi

The emergence of ride-sourcing platforms has brought an innovative alternative in transportation, radically changed travel behaviors, and suggested new directions for transportation planners and operators. This paper provides an exploratory…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Simon Oh , Daniel Kondor , Ravi Seshadri , Meng Zhou , Diem-Trinh Le , Moshe Ben-Akiva

Ridepooling combines trips of multiple passengers in the same vehicle and may thereby provide a more sustainable option than transport by private cars. The efficiency and sustainability of ridepooling is typically quantified by key…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-12 Charlotte Lotze , Philip Marszal , Felix Jung , Debsankha Manik , Marc Timme , Malte Schröder

Practical deployments of coordinated fleets of mobile robots in different environments have revealed the benefits of maintaining small distances between robots, especially as they move at higher speeds. However, this is counter-intuitive in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Namya Bagree , Charles Noren , Damanpreet Singh , Matthew Travers , Bhaskar Vundurthy

E-scooters are becoming a popular means of urban transportation. However, this increased popularity brings challenges, such as road accidents and conflicts when sharing space with traditional transport modes. An in-depth understanding of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hiruni Nuwanthika Kegalle , Danula Hettiachchi , Jeffrey Chan , Mark Sanderson , Flora D. Salim

Finding an available on-street parking spot is a relevant problem of day-to-day life. In recent years, cities such as Melbourne and San Francisco deployed sensors that provide real-time information about the occupation of parking spots.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Niklas Strauß , Lukas Rottkamp , Sebatian Schmoll , Matthias Schubert

We are in the midst of a technology-driven transformation of the urban mobility landscape. However, unfortunately these new innovations are still dominated by car-centric personal mobility, which leads to concerns such as environmental…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Danushka Edirimanna , Hins Hu , Samitha Samaranayake

We propose a ridesharing strategy with integrated transit in which a private on-demand mobility service operator may drop off a passenger directly door-to-door, commit to dropping them at a transit station or picking up from a transit…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Tai-Yu Ma , Saeid Rasulkhani , Joseph Y. J. Chow , Sylvain Klein

We consider ride-sharing networks served byhuman-driven vehicles and autonomous vehicles. First, wepropose a novel model for ride-sharing in this mixed autonomysetting for a multi-location network in which the platformsets prices for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Qinshuang Wei , Jorge Alberto Rodriguez , Ramtin Pedarsani , Samuel Coogan

Efficient use of urban micromobility resources such as bike sharing is challenging due to the unbalanced station-level demand and supply, which causes the maintenance of the bike sharing systems painstaking. Prior efforts have been made on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xi Yang , Jiachen Wang , Song Han , Suining He

Accurately forecasting the real-time travel demand for dockless scooter-sharing is crucial for the planning and operations of transportation systems. Deep learning models provide researchers with powerful tools to achieve this task, but…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yiming Xu , Xilei Zhao , Xiaojian Zhang , Mudit Paliwal

Rideshare is one way to share mobility in transportation without increasing traffic demand, where travel mobility and usage of vehicle capacity can be improved. However, current literature on rideshare has allowed only one-modal trips and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-21 Soomin Woo

Mobility-On-Demand (MoD) services have been transforming the urban mobility ecosystem. However, they raise a lot of concerns for their impact on congestion, Vehicle Miles Travelled (VMT), and competition with transit. There are also…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Zhenliang Ma , Haris N. Koutsopoulos

Taxi services are a vital part of urban transportation, and a considerable contributor to traffic congestion and air pollution causing substantial adverse effects on human health. Sharing taxi trips is a possible way of reducing the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-09-17 Paolo Santi , Giovanni Resta , Michael Szell , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Steven Strogatz , Carlo Ratti

Cooperative driving at isolated intersections attracted great interest and had been well discussed in recent years. However, cooperative driving in multi-intersection road networks remains to be further investigated, because many algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Huaxin Pei , Yi Zhang , Qinghua Tao , Shuo Feng , Li Li

By utilising vehicle capacity more efficiently, ride-pooling platforms can potentially lead to reduced congestion levels without adversely prolonging travel times. While previous studies concluded that shared rides can offer substantial…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-15 Arjan de Ruijter , Oded Cats , Javier Alonso-Mora , Serge Hoogendoorn

Bike-sharing transportation systems have been well studied from a top-down viewpoint, either for an optimal conception of the system, or for a better statistical understanding of their working mechanisms in the aim of the optimization of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Juste Raimbault

This paper investigates a specific instance of the static repositioning problem within station-based bike-sharing systems. Our study incorporates operational and damaged bikes, a heterogeneous fleet, and multiple visits between stations and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Julio-Mario Daza-Escorcia , David Álvarez Martínez

Shared-use autonomous mobility services (SAMS) present new opportunities for improving accessible and demand-responsive mobility. A fundamental challenge that SAMS face is appropriate positioning of idle fleet vehicles to meet future demand…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Monika Filipovska , Michael Hyland , Haimanti Bala

As cities strive to address urban mobility challenges, combining autonomous transportation technologies with intelligent infrastructure presents an opportunity to transform how people move within urban environments. Autonomous shuttles are…