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In this paper, we develop a zonal-based flexible bus services (ZBFBS) by considering both passenger demands spatial (origin-destination or OD) and volume stochastic variations. Service requests are grouped by zonal OD pairs and number of…
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Dynamic scheduling is an important problem in applications from queuing to wireless networks. It addresses how to choose an item among multiple scheduling items in each timestep to achieve a long-term goal. Conventional approaches for…
The recently introduced online Minimum Peak Appointment Scheduling (MPAS) problem is a variant of the online bin-packing problem that allows for deferred decision making. Specifically, it allows for the problem to be split into an online…
Bus timetable optimization is a key issue to reduce operational cost of bus companies and improve the service quality. Existing methods use exact or heuristic algorithms to optimize the timetable in an offline manner. In practice, the…
This paper examines the use of in-store customers as delivery couriers in a centralized crowd-shipping system, targeting the growing need for efficient last-mile delivery in urban areas. We consider a brick-and-mortar retail setting where…
As Public Transport (PT) becomes more dynamic and demand-responsive, it increasingly depends on predictions of transport demand. But how accurate need such predictions be for effective PT operation? We address this question through an…
This paper presents a real-time trajectory planning framework for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) that is both safe and scalable. The proposed framework employs a decentralized, free-flight concept of operation in which each aircraft independently…
System-level decision making in transportation needs to understand day-to-day variation of network flows, which calls for accurate modeling and estimation of probabilistic dynamic travel demand on networks. Most existing studies estimate…
Despite measures to reduce congestion, occurrences of both recurrent and non-recurrent congestion cause large delays in road networks with important economic implications. Educated use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) can…
The emergence of Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) services creates new opportunities to improve the efficiency and reliability of on-demand mobility systems. Unlike human-driven Mobility-on-Demand (MoD), AMoD enables fully centralized…
We survey recent advances in algorithms for route planning in transportation networks. For road networks, we show that one can compute driving directions in milliseconds or less even at continental scale. A variety of techniques provide…
This paper investigates the optimization problem of scheduling autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) in hospital settings, considering dynamic requests with different priorities. The primary objective is to minimize the daily service cost by…
Several embedded application domains for reconfigurable systems tend to combine frequent changes with high performance demands of their workloads such as image processing, wearable computing and network processors. Time multiplexing of…
This paper proposes a generalised framework for density estimation in large networks with measurable spatiotemporal variance in edge weights. We solve the stochastic shortest path problem for a large network by estimating the density of the…