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As emerging mobility modes continue to expand, many cities face declining bus ridership, increasing fiscal pressure to sustain underutilized routes, and growing inefficiencies in resource allocation. This study employs an agent-based…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qiumeng Li , Xinxi Yang , Suhong Zhou

In this study, we propose a three-stage framework for the planning and scheduling of high-capacity mobility-on-demand services (e.g., micro transit and flexible transit) at urban activity hubs. The proposed framework consists of (1) the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Xinwu Qian , Jiawei Xue , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Autonomous driving system aims for safe and social-consistent driving through the behavioral integration among interactive agents. However, challenges remain due to multi-agent scene uncertainty and heterogeneous interaction. Current dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Haochen Liu , Li Chen , Yu Qiao , Chen Lv , Hongyang Li

The VIPAFLEET project consists in developing models and algorithms for man- aging a fleet of Individual Public Autonomous Vehicles (VIPA). Hereby, we consider a fleet of cars distributed at specified stations in an industrial area to supply…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Sahar Bsaybes , Alain Quilliot , Annegret K. Wagler

Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is a promising form of urban transport. Its operation consists in the use of small unmanned vehicles which convey the passengers among stations within a dedicated network. Various aspects of the PRT network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-17 Jerzy Mieścicki , Wiktor B. Daszczuk

End-to-end training of multi-agent systems offers significant advantages in improving multi-task performance. However, training such models remains challenging and requires extensive manual design and monitoring. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zewei Zhou , Seth Z. Zhao , Tianhui Cai , Zhiyu Huang , Bolei Zhou , Jiaqi Ma

With the rapid development of location based services, multimodal spatio-temporal (ST) data including trajectories, transportation modes, traffic flow and social check-ins are being collected for deep learning based methods. These deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Chenxing Wang

As cities grapple with traffic congestion and service inequities, mobility hubs offer a scalable solution to align increasing travel demand with sustainability goals. However, evaluating their impacts remains challenging due to the lack of…

General Economics · Economics 2025-10-10 Xiyuan Ren , Joseph Y. J. Chow

The utilization of Large Language Models (LLMs) to power human-like agents has shown remarkable potential in simulating individual mobility pattern. However, a significant gap remains in modeling cohorts of agents in dynamic and interactive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-16 Chengbo Zhang , Zuopeng Xiao

Vehicle-based mobile sensing (a.k.a drive-by sensing) is an important means of surveying urban environment by leveraging the mobility of public or private transport vehicles. Buses, for their extensive spatial coverage and reliable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-28 Dai Zhuang , Ke Han

Capturing latent demand has a pivotal role in designing transit services as omitting these riders can lead to poor quality of service and/or additional costs. This paper explores this topic in the design of transit networks by considering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Hongzhao Guan , Beste Basciftci , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The implementation of Urban Air Mobility represents a complex challenge in aviation due to the high degree of innovation required across various domains to realize it. From the use of advanced aircraft powered by novel technologies, the…

Integrating ridesharing matching explicitly into multimodal traffic models is crucial for accurately assessing the impacts of multimodal transport (MT) on urban economic and environmental aspects. This paper integrates an optimal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-26 Yueqi Liu , Ke Han , Zhuoqian Yang , Yanghong Yu , Wen Ji

Rethinking cities is now more imperative than ever, as society faces global challenges such as population growth and climate change. The design of cities can not be abstracted from the design of its mobility system, and, therefore,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Naroa Coretti Sánchez , Iñigo Martinez , Luis Alonso Pastor , Kent Larson

Our research introduces a modular motion planning framework for autonomous vehicles using a sampling-based trajectory planning algorithm. This approach effectively tackles the challenges of solution space construction and optimization in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Rainer Trauth , Korbinian Moller , Gerald Wuersching , Johannes Betz

Stable matching is a fundamental area with many practical applications, such as centralised clearinghouses for school choice or job markets. Recent work has introduced the paradigm of near-feasibility in capacitated matching settings, where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Frederik Glitzner

The design of future mobility solutions and the design of the mobility systems they enable are closely coupled. Indeed, knowledge about the intended service of novel mobility solutions would impact their design and deployment process,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Gioele Zardini , Nicolas Lanzetti , Andrea Censi , Emilio Frazzoli , Marco Pavone

Demand Responsive Shared Transport DRST services take advantage of Information and Communication Technologies ICT, to provide on demand transport services booking in real time a ride on a shared vehicle. In this paper, an agent-based model…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Giuseppe Inturri , Nadia Giuffrida , Matteo Ignaccolo , Michela Le Pira , Alessandro Pluchino , Andrea Rapisarda

Bus bunching remains a challenge for urban transit due to stochastic traffic and passenger demand. Traditional solutions rely on multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in loop-line settings, which overlook realistic operations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yifan Zhang

To support operations and passenger-facing services, transit agencies need reliable passenger load trajectories. Currently, load estimates are typically inferred from imperfect sensing systems rather than fully observed, and the accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yiyao Xu , Hao Zhou , Yuhang Wang , Jingran Sun