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We consider emergent situations that require transporting individuals from their locations to a facility using a single capacitated vehicle, where transportation duration has a negative impact on the individuals. A dispatcher determines…

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We study the problem of online Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery (MAPD), where a team of agents must repeatedly serve dynamically appearing tasks on a shared map. Existing online methods either rely on simple heuristics, which result in poor…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Yue Zhang , Zhe Chen , Daniel Harabor , Pierre Le Bodic , Peter J. Stuckey

We model and study the problem of assigning traffic in an urban road network infrastructure. In our model, each driver submits their intended destination and is assigned a route to follow that minimizes the social cost (i.e., travel…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Paolo Serafino , Carmine Ventre , Long Tran-Thanh , Jie Zhang , Bo An , Nick Jennings

The traffic assignment problem (TAP) aims to predict how traffic flows distribute themselves across a road network, traditionally requiring computationally expensive iterative simulations to reach a user equilibrium (UE) where no driver can…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Isolda Cardoso , Lucas Venturato , Jorgelina Walpen

Enabling resilient autonomous motion planning requires robust predictions of surrounding road users' future behavior. In response to this need and the associated challenges, we introduce our model titled MTP-GO. The model encodes the scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Theodor Westny , Joel Oskarsson , Björn Olofsson , Erik Frisk

Public-transit systems face a number of operational challenges: (a) changing ridership patterns requiring optimization of fixed line services, (b) optimizing vehicle-to-trip assignments to reduce maintenance and operation codes, and (c)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Ruixiao Sun , Rongze Gui , Himanshu Neema , Yuche Chen , Juliette Ugirumurera , Joseph Severino , Philip Pugliese , Aron Laszka , Abhishek Dubey

In this paper we present a Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming model that we developed as part of a pilot study requested by the R&D company Metrolab in order to design tools for finding solutions for line planning and timetable situations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Víctor Blanco , Eduardo Conde , Yolanda Hinojosa , Justo Puerto

Optimal transport is a framework that facilitates the most efficient allocation of a limited amount of resources. However, the most efficient allocation scheme does not necessarily preserve the most fairness. In this paper, we establish a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-01 Jason Hughes , Juntao Chen

In this paper, we propose a distributed version of the Hungarian Method to solve the well known assignment problem. In the context of multi-robot applications, all robots cooperatively compute a common assignment that optimizes a given…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Smriti Chopra , Giuseppe Notarstefano , Matthew Rice , Magnus Egerstedt

Optimal transport is a powerful framework for the efficient allocation of resources between sources and targets. However, traditional models often struggle to scale effectively in the presence of large and heterogeneous populations. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Navpreet Kaur , Juntao Chen , Yingdong Lu

Nowadays, with advanced information technologies deployed citywide, large data volumes and powerful computational resources are intelligentizing modern city development. As an important part of intelligent transportation, route…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Shiming Zhang , Zhipeng Luo , Li Yang , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li

This paper proposes an approach to perform travel demand calibration for high-resolution stochastic traffic simulators. It employs abundant travel times at the path-level, departing from the standard practice of resorting to scarce…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Chao Zhang , Yechen Li , Neha Arora , Damien Pierce , Carolina Osorio

This work introduces an integrated approach to optimizing urban traffic by combining predictive modeling of vehicle flow, adaptive traffic signal control, and a modular integration architecture through distributed messaging. Using real-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Ismail Zrigui , Samira Khoulji , Mohamed Larbi Kerkeb

Imputation of random or non-random missing data is a long-standing research topic and a crucial application for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). However, with the advent of modern communication technologies such as Global Satellite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yihang Lu , Mahwish Yousaf , Xianwei Meng , Enhong Chen

This paper presents a novel accelerated distributed algorithm for unconstrained consensus optimization over static undirected networks. The proposed algorithm combines the benefits of acceleration from momentum, the robustness of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Eduardo Sebastián , Mauro Franceschelli , Andrea Gasparri , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagüés

Given the counters of vehicles that traverse the roads of a traffic network, we reconstruct the travel demand that generated them expressed in terms of the number of origin-destination trips made by users. We model the problem as a bi-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Nicklas Sindlev Andersen , Marco Chiarandini , Kristian Debrabant

Semidiscrete optimal transport is a challenging generalization of the classical transportation problem in linear programming. The goal is to design a joint distribution for two random variables (one continuous, one discrete) with fixed…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-22 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

In this paper, we consider a dynamic equilibrium transportation problem. There is a fixed number of cars moving from origin to destination areas. Preferences for arrival times are expressed as a cost of arriving before or after the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Victoria Guseva , Ilya Sklonin , Irina Podlipnova , Demyan Yarmoshik , Alexander Gasnikov

Post-disaster road assessment (PDRA) is essential for emergency response, enabling rapid evaluation of infrastructure conditions and efficient allocation of resources. Although drones provide a flexible and effective tool for PDRA, routing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Huatian Gong , Jiuh-Biing Sheu , Zheng Wang , Xiaoguang Yang , Ran Yan

Travel time in urban centers is a significant contributor to the quality of living of its citizens. Mobility on Demand (MoD) services such as Uber and Lyft have revolutionized the transportation infrastructure, enabling new solutions for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Yue Guan , Anuradha M. Annaswamy , H. Eric Tseng