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The ubiquitous growth of mobility-on-demand services for passenger and goods delivery has brought various challenges and opportunities within the realm of transportation systems. As a result, intelligent transportation systems are being…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Kaushik Manchella , Marina Haliem , Vaneet Aggarwal , Bharat Bhargava

Transit agencies have the opportunity to outsource certain services to established Mobility-on-Demand (MOD) providers. Such alliances can improve service quality, coverage, and ridership; reduce public sector costs and vehicular emissions;…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Kayla Cummings , Vikrant Vaze , Özlem Ergun , Cynthia Barnhart

Dynamic pricing in competitive retail markets requires strategies that adapt to fluctuating demand and competitor behavior. In this work, we present a systematic empirical evaluation of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Krishna Kumar Neelakanta Pillai Santha Kumari Amma

Mobility on demand (MoD) systems show great promise in realizing flexible and efficient urban transportation. However, significant technical challenges arise from operational decision making associated with MoD vehicle dispatch and fleet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-20 Erotokritos Skordilis , Yi Hou , Charles Tripp , Matthew Moniot , Peter Graf , David Biagioni

Road congestion induces significant costs across the world, and road network disturbances, such as traffic accidents, can cause highly congested traffic patterns. If a planner had control over the routing of all vehicles in the network,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-07 Daniel A. Lazar , Erdem Bıyık , Dorsa Sadigh , Ramtin Pedarsani

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to increase the capacity of roads via platooning, even when human drivers and autonomous vehicles share roads. However, when users of a road network choose their routes selfishly, the resulting traffic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-05 Erdem Bıyık , Daniel A. Lazar , Dorsa Sadigh , Ramtin Pedarsani

We consider the sequential decision-making problem of making proactive request assignment and rejection decisions for a profit-maximizing operator of an autonomous mobility on demand system. We formalize this problem as a Markov decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Tobias Enders , James Harrison , Marco Pavone , Maximilian Schiffer

In online advertising, auto-bidding has become an essential tool for advertisers to optimize their preferred ad performance metrics by simply expressing high-level campaign objectives and constraints. Previous works designed auto-bidding…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Chao Wen , Miao Xu , Zhilin Zhang , Zhenzhe Zheng , Yuhui Wang , Xiangyu Liu , Yu Rong , Dong Xie , Xiaoyang Tan , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu , Fan Wu , Guihai Chen , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Bo Zheng

The online advertising market, with its thousands of auctions run per second, presents a daunting challenge for advertisers who wish to optimize their spend under a budget constraint. Thus, advertising platforms typically provide automated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Dmytro Korenkevych , Frank Cheng , Artsiom Balakir , Alex Nikulkov , Lingnan Gao , Zhihao Cen , Zuobing Xu , Zheqing Zhu

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) systems have become a fixture in urban transportation networks, with the rapid growth of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft. Ride-hailing is typically complemented with ridepooling options, which can reduce…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Yang Liu , Qi Luo , Raga Gopalakrishnan , Samitha Samaranayake

Autonomous pricing algorithms are increasingly influencing competition in digital markets; however, their behavior under realistic demand conditions remains largely unexamined. This paper offers a thorough analysis of four pricing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Aheer Sravon , Md. Ibrahim , Devdyuti Mazumder , Ridwan Al Aziz

This study investigates how Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) can improve dynamic pricing strategies in supply chains, particularly in contexts where traditional ERP systems rely on static, rule-based approaches that overlook…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Thomas Hazenberg , Yao Ma , Seyed Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari , Marijn van Rijswijk

Autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) systems, centrally coordinated fleets of self-driving vehicles, offer a promising alternative to traditional ride-hailing by improving traffic flow and reducing operating costs. Centralized control in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Antonio Coppola , Gerhard Hiermann , Dario Paccagnan , Michel Gendreau , Maximilian Schiffer

As an emerging mode of urban transportation, Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems show the potential in improving mobility in cities through timely and door-to-door services. However, the spatiotemporal imbalances between mobility…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Pengbo Zhu , Isik Ilber Sirmatel , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Nikolas Geroliminis

This paper addresses a critical challenge in the high-speed passenger railway industry: designing effective dynamic pricing strategies in the context of competing and cooperating operators. To address this, a multi-agent reinforcement…

We consider a profit maximization problem in an urban mobility on-demand service, of which the operator owns a fleet, provides both exclusive and shared trip services, and dynamically determines prices of offers. With knowledge of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Han Qiu , Ruimin Li , Jinhua Zhao

Recent technological progress in the development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) together with decreasing acquisition costs make the application of drone fleets attractive for a wide variety of tasks. In agriculture, disaster management,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yoav Alon , Huiyu Zhou

In this paper, we study the potential benefits from smart charging for a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) providing autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) services. We first consider a profit-maximizing platform operator who makes decisions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Berkay Turan , Nathaniel Tucker , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

In this paper we propose a Deep Reinforcement Learning approach to solve a multimodal transportation planning problem, in which containers must be assigned to a truck or to trains that will transport them to their destination. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Amirreza Farahani , Laura Genga , Remco Dijkman

While multimodal mobility systems have the potential to bring many benefits to travelers, drivers, the environment, and traffic congestion, such systems typically involve multiple non-cooperative decision-makers who may selfishly optimize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-08 Md Nafees Fuad Rafi , Zhaomiao Guo