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Microtransit offers opportunities to enhance urban mobility by combining the reliability of public transit and the flexibility of ride-sharing. This paper optimizes the design and operations of a deviated fixed-route microtransit system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Bernardo Martin-Iradi , Alexandria Schmid , Kayla Cummings , Alexandre Jacquillat

Urban air mobility is a concept that promotes aerial modes of transport in urban areas. In these areas, the location and capacity of the vertiports--where the travelers embark and disembark the aircraft--not only affect the flight delays of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Yue Yu , Mengyuan Wang , Mehran Mesbahi , Ufuk Topcu

This study models a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) system as a multi-leader-multi-follower game that captures the complex interactions among the MaaS platform, service operators, and travelers. We consider a coopetitive setting where the MaaS…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-05 Rui Yao , Xinyu Ma , Kenan Zhang

Ride-hailing platforms like DiDi Chuxing operate in highly dynamic environments where balancing driver supply and passenger demand is critical. Although driver-side subsidies serve as a primary lever to align these forces and improve key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Taijie Chen , Rui Su , Siyuan Feng , Laoming Zhang , Hongyang Zhang , Haijiao Wang , Zhaofeng Ma , Jintao Ke , Li Ma

In the governance of the shared mobility market of a city or of a metropolitan area, there are two conflicting principles: 1) the healthy competition between multiple platforms, such as between Uber and Lyft in the United States, and 2)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Xiaotong Guo , Ao Qu , Hongmou Zhang , Peyman Noursalehi , Jinhua Zhao

We consider the situation where multiple transportation service providers cooperate to offer an integrated multi-modal platform to enhance the convenience to the passengers through ease in multi-modal journey planning, payment, and first…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yuntian Deng , Shiping Shao , Archak Mittal , Richard Twumasi-Boakye , James Fishelson , Abhishek Gupta , Ness B. Shroff

This study addresses the rebalancing of empty modular transit pods between scheduled service trips in fixed-route bus systems. A two-stage hierarchical optimization framework is proposed. The first stage determines the minimum fleet size…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Tina Radvand , Alireza Talebpour , Yanfeng Ouyang

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

This study addresses a large-scale multimodal transit network design problem, with Shared Autonomous Mobility Services (SAMS) as both transit feeders and an origin-to-destination mode. The framework captures spatial demand and modal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Max T. M. Ng , Hani S. Mahmassani , Ömer Verbas , Taner Cokyasar , Roman Engelhardt

This work addresses the uniform parallel machine scheduling problem within an optimistic bilevel optimization framework. The leader seeks to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs, while the follower aims to minimize the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Quentin Schau , Federico Della Croce , Olivier Ploton , Vincent t'Kindt

Ride-hailing services have expanded the role of shared mobility in passenger transportation systems, creating new markets and creative planning solutions for major urban centers. In this paper, we consider their use for the first-mile or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Arvind U Raghunathan , David Bergman , John Hooker , Thiago Serra , Shingo Kobori

This work consists of a procedure to optimally select, among a group of candidate sites where gas stations were already located, a sufficient number of charging points in order to guarantee that an electric vehicle can make its journey…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Ramón Piedra-de-la-Cuadra , Francisco Ortega

This paper addresses the pressing challenge of urban mobility in the context of growing urban populations, changing demand patterns for urban mobility, and emerging technologies like Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) platforms and Autonomous Vehicle…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Xiaotong Guo , Jinhua Zhao

Microtransit systems represent an enhancement to solve the first- and last-mile problem, integrating traditional rail and bus networks with on-demand shuttles into a flexible, integrated system. This type of demand responsive transport…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Jason Lu , Tejas Santanam , Hongzhao Guan , Connor Riley , Meen-Sung Kim , Anthony Trasatti , Neda Masoud , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted multi-access edge computing (MEC) has become one promising solution for energy-constrained devices to meet the computation demand and the stringent delay requirement. In this work, we investigate a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Nway Nway Ei , Madyan Alsenwi , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

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

We are in the midst of a technology-driven transformation of the urban mobility landscape. However, unfortunately these new innovations are still dominated by car-centric personal mobility, which leads to concerns such as environmental…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Danushka Edirimanna , Hins Hu , Samitha Samaranayake

The emerging edge computing paradigm promises to provide low latency and ubiquitous computation to numerous mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices at the network edge. How to efficiently allocate geographically distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Tarannum Nisha , Duong Tung Nguyen , Vijay K. Bhargava

Motivated by emerging urban applications in commercial, public sector, and humanitarian logistics, we revisit continuous $p$-hub location problems in which several facilities must be located in a continuous space such that the expected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Yifan Wu , Joseph Geunes , Xiaofeng Nie

Less-than-truckload (LTL) shipment is vital in modern freight transportation yet is in dire need of more efficient usage of resources, higher service responsiveness and velocity, lower overall shipping cost across all parties, and better…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Tiankuo Zhang , Jingze Li , Benoit Montreuil