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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

Dial-a-ride problem (DARP) deals with the transportation of users between pickup and drop-off locations associated with specified time windows. This paper proposes a novel algorithm called multi-atomic annealing (MATA) to solve static…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Song Guang Ho , Ramesh Ramasamy Pandi , Sarat Chandra Nagavarapu , Justin Dauwels

The rapid growth of e-commerce and the increasing demand for timely, cost-effective last-mile delivery have increased interest in collaborative logistics. This research introduces a novel collaborative synchronized multi-platform vehicle…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Sumbal Malik , Majid Khonji , Khaled Elbassioni , Jorge Dias

This paper studies the benefits of autonomous vehicles in ride-sharing platforms dedicated to serving commuting needs. It considers the Commute Trip Sharing Problem with Autonomous Vehicles (CTSPAV), the optimization problem faced by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-05 Mohd. Hafiz Hasan , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are aircraft whose flights can be fully autonomous without any provision for human intervention. One of the most useful and promising domains where UAVs can be employed is natural disaster management. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-14 Tiziana Calamoneri , Federico Corò , Simona Mancini

With the rapid development of smart mobile devices, the car-hailing platforms (e.g., Uber or Lyft) have attracted much attention from both the academia and the industry. In this paper, we consider an important dynamic car-hailing problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Peng Cheng , Jiabao Jin , Lei Chen , Xuemin Lin , Libin Zheng

We introduce the multimodal car- and ride-sharing problem (MMCRP), in which a pool of cars is used to cover a set of ride requests while uncovered requests are assigned to other modes of transport (MOT). A car's route consists of one or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Miriam Enzi , Sophie N. Parragh , David Pisinger , Matthias Prandtstetter

The shift from private vehicles to public and shared transport is crucial to reducing emissions and meeting climate targets. Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop a multimodal transport trip planning approach that integrates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Yimeng Zhang , Oded Cats , Shadi Sharif Azadeh

The continuous increase in urban deliveries and the ongoing urbanization of large cities require the development of efficient and sustainable transportation solutions. This study investigates the impact of modular vehicle concepts and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Jonas Hatzenbühler , Erik Jenelius , Győző Gidófalvi , Oded Cats

The performance of multimodal mobility systems relies on the seamless integration of conventional mass transit services and the advent of Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) services. Prior work is limited to individually improving various transport…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Qi Luo , Samitha Samaranayake , Siddhartha Banerjee

In this work, a study on Variable Neighborhood Search algorithms for multi-depot dial-a-ride problems is presented. In dial-a-ride problems patients need to be transported from pre-specified pickup locations to pre-specified delivery…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Paolo Detti , Garazi Zabalo Manrique de Lara

Meeting-point-based feeder services using EVs have good potential to achieve an efficient and clean on-demand mobility service. However, customer-to-meeting-point, vehicle routing, and charging scheduling need to be jointly optimized to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Tai-Yu Ma , Yumeng Fang , Richard D. Connors , Francesco Viti , Haruko Nakao

For solving problems from the domain of Mobility-on-Demand (MoD), we often need to connect vehicle plans into plans spanning longer time, a process we call plan chaining. As we show in this work, chaining of the plans can be used to reduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-27 David Fiedler , Fabio V. Difonzo , Jan Mrkos

A rich vehicle routing problem is considered, allowing multiple trips of heterogeneous vehicles stationed at geographically distributed vehicle depots having access to different modes of transportation. The problem arises from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Santanu Banerjee , Goutam Sen , Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay

Urban mobility systems are transitioning toward electric, on-demand services, creating operational challenges for fleet management under energy and service-quality constraints. The Electric Dial-a-Ride Problem (E-DARP) extends the classical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Sten Elling Tingstad Jacobsen , Attila Lischka , Balázs Kulcsár , Anders Lindman

Rising labor costs and increasing logistical demands pose significant challenges to modern delivery systems. Automated Electric Vehicles (AEVs) could reduce reliance on delivery personnel and increase route flexibility, but their adoption…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jingyi Zhao , Jiayu Yang , Haoxiang Yang

This study explores the potential of using ride-hailing vehicles (RVs) for integrated passenger and freight transport based on shared mobility. In this crowd-sourced mode, ride-hailing platforms can profit from parcel delivery services, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Wen Ji , Shenglin Liu , Ke Han , Tao Liu

Recent developments in modular transport vehicles allow deploying multi-purpose vehicles which can alternately transport different kinds of flows. In this study, we propose a novel variant of the pickup and delivery problem, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Jonas Hatzenbühler , Erik Jenelius , Győző Gidófalvi , Oded Cats

Dial a ride problems consist of a metric space (denoting travel time between vertices) and a set of m objects represented as source-destination pairs, where each object requires to be moved from its source to destination vertex. We consider…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Inge Li Goertz , Viswanath Nagarajan , R. Ravi

This paper addresses the problem of motion planning for differential drive micro-mobility platforms. This class of vehicle is designed to perform small-distance transportation of passengers and goods in structured environments. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Angelo Caregnato-Neto , Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira