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Congestion pricing has emerged as an effective tool for mitigating traffic congestion, yet implementing welfare or revenue-optimal dynamic tolls is often impractical. Most real-world congestion pricing deployments, including New York City's…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Devansh Jalota , Xuan Di , Adam N. Elmachtoub

The introduction of autonomous (self-driving) and shared autonomous vehicles (AVs and SAVs) will affect travel destinations and distances, mode choice, and congestion. From a traffic perspective, although some congestion reduction may be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Michele D. Simoni , Kara M. Kockelman , Krishna M. Gurumurthy , Joschka Bischoff

Congestion pricing, while adopted by many cities to alleviate traffic congestion, raises concerns about widening socioeconomic disparities due to its disproportionate impact on low-income travelers. We address this concern by proposing a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Chinmay Maheshwari , Kshitij Kulkarni , Druv Pai , Jiarui Yang , Manxi Wu , Shankar Sastry

In several socioeconomic-critical decision-making settings, such as fair resource allocation, climate policy, or AI alignment, multiple principals interact within a common arena. While it is well established that these principals may have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sarvin Bahmani , Soumyajit Paul , Sven Schewe , Shadi Tasdighi Kalat , Ashutosh Trivedi

We study a spatiotemporal service matching problem in which demand, heterogeneous in location and time sensitivity/preference, is to be assigned to service stations. The planner seeks to maximize social welfare, defined as total service…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-17 Mingyang Fu , Ming Hu

We consider the price-optimal earliest arrival problem in public transit (POEAP) in which we aim to calculate the Pareto-set of journeys with respect to ticket price and arrival time in a public transportation network. Public transit fare…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Ricardo Euler , Niels Lindner , Ralf Borndörfer

Existing work has tackled the problem of estimating Origin-Destination (OD) demands and recovering travel latency functions in transportation networks under the Wardropian assumption. The ultimate objective is to derive an accurate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Salomón Wollenstein-Betech , Chuangchuang Sun , Jing Zhang , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

This study addresses the challenge of fleet design optimization in the context of heterogeneous multi-robot fleets, aiming to obtain feasible designs that balance performance and costs. In the domain of autonomous multi-robot exploration,…

This paper studies the optimal spatial pricing for a ride-sourcing platform subject to a congestion charge. The platform determines the ride prices over the transportation network to maximize its profit, while the regulatory agency imposes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Sen Li , Hai Yang , Kameshwar Poolla , Pravin Varaiya

Express transportation network design is uncertain because origin--destination demand, travel time, operating cost, hub congestion, and realized sorting productivity vary over time. Existing multi-topology express network models usually…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2026-05-08 Debashis Chatterjee

A Mathematical Program with Equilibrium Constraints (MPEC) is formulated to capture the relationships between multiple Mobility Service Providers (MSPs) and the users of a multi-modal transport network. The network supply structure is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Claudia Bandiera , Richard D. Connors , Francesco Viti

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

We design a coordination mechanism for truck drivers that uses pricing-and-routing schemes that can help alleviate traffic congestion in a general transportation network. We consider the user heterogeneity in Value-Of-Time (VOT) by adopting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-01 Aristotelis-Angelos Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kordonis , Maged M. Dessouky , Petros A. Ioannou

We study the network pricing problem where the leader maximizes their revenue by determining the optimal amounts of tolls to charge on a set of arcs, under the assumption that the followers will react rationally and choose the shortest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Quang Minh Bui , Bernard Gendron , Margarida Carvalho

In route selection problems, the driver's personal preferences will determine whether she prefers a route with a travel time that has a relatively low mean and high variance over one that has relatively high mean and low variance. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Rens Kamphuis , Michel Mandjes , Paulo Serra

Bayesian Optimisation has gained much popularity lately, as a global optimisation technique for functions that are expensive to evaluate or unknown a priori. While classical BO focuses on where to gather an observation next, it does not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Philippe Morere , Roman Marchant , Fabio Ramos

This paper investigates the scheduling problem of a fleet of electric vehicles, providing mobility as a service to a set of time-specified customers, where the operator needs to solve the routing and charging problem jointly for each EV.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Canqi Yao , Shibo Chen , Mauro Salazar , Zaiyue Yang

We investigate the impacts of spatial pricing for ride-sourcing services in a Stackelberg framework considering traffic congestion. In the lower level, we use combined distribution and assignment approaches to explicitly capture the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Fatima Afifah , Zhaomiao Guo

This paper studies line planning for urban bus networks that face multiple resource limits such as budget, labor, and emission caps while using heterogeneous fleets. The objective is to maximize total reward from serving passengers by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Hongyi Jiang , Igor Averbakh , Samitha Samaranayake

We introduce \textbf{BO4Mob}, a new benchmark framework for high-dimensional Bayesian Optimization (BO), driven by the challenge of origin-destination (OD) travel demand estimation in large urban road networks. Estimating OD travel demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Seunghee Ryu , Donghoon Kwon , Seongjin Choi , Aryan Deshwal , Seungmo Kang , Carolina Osorio