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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

Same-day delivery for e-commerce has become a popular service. Companies usually offer several time delivery options with the earliest one being next hour delivery. Due to tight delivery deadlines and thin margins, companies often find it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Anatolii Prokhorchuk , Justin Dauwels , Patrick Jaillet

We consider the problem of allocating multiple heterogeneous resources geographically and over time to meet demands that require some subset of the available resource types simultaneously at a specified time, location, and duration. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Arden Baxter , Pinar Keskinocak , Mohit Singh

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

Dynamic pricing is commonly used to regulate congestion in shared service systems. This paper is motivated by the fact that in the presence of users with varying price sensitivity (responsiveness), conventional monotonic pricing can lead to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Yingqing Chen , Anni Li , Christos G. Cassandras , Homayoun Hamedmoghadam , Fabian Wirth , Robert Shorten

The evolution of existing transportation systems,mainly driven by urbanization and increased availability of mobility options, such as private, profit-maximizing ride-hailing companies, calls for tools to reason about their design and…

We study the tactical time slot management problem under mixed logit demand for attended home delivery in subscription settings. We propose a static mixed-integer linear programming model that integrates delivery slot assortment, price…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Dorsa Abdolhamidi , Virginie Lurkin

We address a new prize-collecting problem of routing commodities in a given network with hub and non-hub nodes, in which the service of the non-hub nodes will be outsourced to third-party carriers. The problem is modeled as a Stackelberg…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Elena Fernandez , Ivana Ljubic , Nicolas Zerega

Bi-modal delivery systems are a promising solution to the challenges posed by the increasing demand of e-commerce. Due to the potential benefit drones can have on logistics networks such as delivery systems, some countries have taken steps…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-10 Mark Beliaev , Negar Mehr , Ramtin Pedarsani

We study a model of congestible resources, where pricing and scheduling are intertwined. Motivated by the problem of pricing cloud instances, we model a cloud computing service as linked $GI/GI/\cdot$ queuing systems where the provider…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Vineet Abhishek , Ian A. Kash , Peter Key

Urban food delivery services have become an integral part of daily life, yet their mobility and environmental externalities remain poorly addressed by planners. Most studies neglect whether consumers pay enough to internalize the broader…

General Economics · Economics 2025-10-31 Runyu Wang , Haotian Zhong

We study the system-level effects of the introduction of large populations of Electric Vehicles on the power and transportation networks. We assume that each EV owner solves a decision problem to pick a cost-minimizing charge and travel…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mahnoosh Alizadeh , Hoi-To Wai , Mainak Chowdhury , Andrea Goldsmith , Anna Scaglione , Tara Javidi

In this paper, we study a dynamic pickup and delivery problem with docking constraints. There is a homogeneous fleet of vehicles to serve pickup-and-delivery requests at given locations. The vehicles can be loaded up to their capacity,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Markó Horváth , Tamás Kis , Péter Györgyi

Solving the road congestion problem is one of the most pressing issues in moderncities since it causes time wasting, pollution, higher industrial costs and huge roadmaintenance costs. Advances in ITS technologies and the advent of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Valentina Morandi

To date the majority of commuters use their privately owned vehicle that uses an internal combustion engine. This transportation model suffers from low vehicle utilization and causes environmental pollution. This paper studies the use of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Emmanouil Rigas , Konstantinos Tsompanidis

In this paper, we consider a mobility system of travelers and providers, and propose a "mobility game" to study when a traveler is matched to a provider. Each traveler seeks to travel using the services of only one provider, who manages one…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Ioannis Vasileios Chremos , Andreas Malikopoulos

The concept of transportation demand management (TDM) upholds the development of sustainable mobility through the triumph of optimally balanced transport modal share in cities. The modal split management directly reflects on TDM of each…

General Economics · Economics 2023-10-09 Janak Parmar , Gulnazbanu Saiyed , Sanjaykumar Dave

This paper studies the problem of allocating tasks from different customers to vehicles in mobility platforms, which are used for applications like food and package delivery, ridesharing, and mobile sensing. A mobility platform should…

In this article we study the problem of jointly deciding carsharing prices and vehicle relocations. We consider carsharing services operating in the context of multi-modal urban transportation systems. Pricing decisions take into account…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Giovanni Pantuso

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