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The mean occupancy rates of personal vehicle trips in the United States is only 1.6 persons per vehicle mile. Urban traffic gridlock is a familiar scene. Ridesharing has the potential to solve many environmental, congestion, and energy…

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In this work, a graph partitioning problem in a fixed number of connected components is considered. Given an undirected graph with costs on the edges, the problem consists of partitioning the set of nodes into a fixed number of subsets with…

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In the growing field of Shared Micromobility Systems, which holds great potential for shaping urban transportation, fairness-oriented approaches remain largely unexplored. This work addresses such a gap by investigating the balance between…

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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…

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Edge computing has emerged as a key technology to reduce network traffic, improve user experience, and enable various Internet of Things applications. From the perspective of a service provider (SP), how to jointly optimize the service…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Duong Tung Nguyen , Hieu Trung Nguyen , Ni Trieu , Vijay K. Bhargava

We study a spatiotemporal service matching problem in which demand, heterogeneous in location and time sensitivity/preference, is to be assigned to service stations. The planner seeks to maximize social welfare, defined as total service…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-03-17 Mingyang Fu , Ming Hu

Electric car-sharing systems are pivotal for sustainable urban mobility, but their strategic design is complicated by operational constraints, particularly those arising from the charging needs of electric vehicles. The success of these…

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Optimal Transport (OT) offers a powerful framework for finding correspondences between distributions and addressing matching and alignment problems in various areas of computer vision, including shape analysis, image generation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xinran Liu , Elaheh Akbari , Rocio Diaz Martin , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Soheil Kolouri

We study the problem of planning Pareto-optimal journeys in public transit networks. Most existing algorithms and speed-up techniques work by computing subjourneys to intermediary stops until the destination is reached. In contrast, the…

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The transition to Electric Vehicles (EVs) demands intelligent, congestion-aware infrastructure planning to balance user convenience, economic viability, and traffic efficiency. We present a joint optimisation framework for EV Charging…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Niloofar Aminikalibar , Farzaneh Farhadi , Maria Chli

Innovative shared mobility services provide on-demand flexible mobility options and have the potential to alleviate traffic congestion. These attractive services are challenging from different perspectives. One major challenge in such…

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This paper presents an optimal network topology control framework using cutting-plane methods for efficient network partitioning with controllable edges. The objective is to enable real-time reconfiguration of interconnected sub-networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Harsha Nagarajan , Robert Ferrando , Russell Bent , David Fobes

We investigate the stochastic transfer synchronization problem, which seeks to synchronize the timetables of different routes in a transit network to reduce transfer waiting times, delay times, and unnecessary in-vehicle times. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Zahra Ansarilari , Merve Bodur , Amer Shalaby

Finding a location for a new facility such that the facility attracts the maximal number of customers is a challenging problem. Existing studies either model customers as static sites and thus do not consider customer movement, or they…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Xiaohui Li , Vaida Ceikute , Christian S. Jensen , Kian-Lee Tan

Mobility service route design requires demand information to operate in a service region. Transit planners and operators can access various data sources including household travel survey data and mobile device location logs. However, when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Gyugeun Yoon , Joseph Y. J. Chow

The optimal charging infrastructure planning problem over a large geospatial area is challenging due to the increasing network sizes of the transportation system and the electric grid. The coupling between the electric vehicle travel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Wanshi Hong , Cong Zhang , Cy Chan , Bin Wang

Urban traffic congestion remains a persistent issue for cities worldwide. Recent macroscopic models have adopted a mathematically well-defined relation between network flow and density to characterize traffic states over an urban region.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Mostafa Ameli , Jean-Patrick Lebacque , Negin Alisoltani , Ludovic Leclercq

We study the journey planning problem for multimodal networks consisting of public transit and a non-schedule-based transfer mode (e.g., walking, bicycle, e-scooter). So far, all efficient algorithms for this problem either restrict usage…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Moritz Potthoff , Jonas Sauer

Mobility-on-demand (MoD) ridesharing is a promising way to improve the occupancy rate of personal vehicles and reduce traffic congestion and emissions. Maximizing the number of passengers served and maximizing a profit target are major…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Qian-Ping Gu , Jiajian Leo Liang

Car-sharing problem is a popular research field in sharing economy. In this paper, we investigate the car-sharing re-balancing problem under uncertain demands. An innovative framework that integrates a non-parametric approach - kernel…

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