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On-demand ridepooling systems offer flexible services pooling multiple passengers into one vehicle, complementing traditional bus services. We propose a transportation system combining the spatial aspects of a fixed sequence of bus stops…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Kendra Reiter , Marie Schmidt , Michael Stiglmayr

Dial-a-Ride problems have been proposed to model the challenge to consolidate passenger transportation requests with a fleet of shared vehicles. The line-based Dial-a-Ride problem (LiDARP) is a variant where the passengers are transported…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Antonio Lauerbach , Kendra Reiter , Marie Schmidt

Ridepooling services play an increasingly important role in modern transportation systems. With soaring demand and growing fleet sizes, the underlying route planning problems become increasingly challenging. In this context, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Daniela Gaul , Kathrin Klamroth , Christian Pfeiffer , Arne Schulz , Michael Stiglmayr

Modular vehicles (MV) possess the ability to physically connect/disconnect with each other and travel in platoon with less energy consumption. A fleet of demand-responsive transit vehicles with such technology can serve passengers door to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhexi Fu , Joseph Y. J. Chow

The Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) is an optimization problem that involves determining optimal routes and schedules for several vehicles to pick up and deliver items at minimum cost. Motivated by real-world carpooling and crowdshipping…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-24 Boshuai Zhao , Kai Wang , Wenchao Wei , Roel Leus

This paper investigates a variant of the dial-a-ride problem (DARP), namely Risk-aware DARP (RDARP). Our RDARP extends the DARP by (1) minimizing a weighted sum of travel cost and disease-transmission risk exposure for onboard passengers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Shuocheng Guo , Iman Dayarian , Jian Li , Xinwu Qian

Ridepooling services require efficient optimization algorithms to simultaneously plan routes and pool users in shared rides. We consider a static dial-a-ride problem (DARP) where a series of origin-destination requests have to be assigned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Daniela Gaul , Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr

The Electric Autonomous Dial-A-Ride Problem (E-ADARP) consists in scheduling a fleet of electric autonomous vehicles to provide ride-sharing services for customers that specify their origins and destinations. The E-ADARP differs from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Yue Su , Nicolas Dupin , Sophie N. Parragh , Jakob Puchinger

The classic Dial-A-Ride Problem (DARP) aims at designing the minimum-cost routing that accommodates a set of user requests under constraints at an operations planning level, where users' preferences and revenue management are often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Xiaotong Dong , Joseph YJ Chow , S Travis Waller , David Rey

This paper offers a new algorithm to efficiently optimize scheduling decisions for dial-a-ride problems (DARPs), including problem variants considering electric and autonomous vehicles (e-ADARPs). The scheduling heuristic, based on linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Claudia Bongiovanni , Nikolas Geroliminis , Mor Kaspi

The paper addresses a variant of the Dial-A-Ride problem with additional features. It is referred to as the DARP with driver preferences, which attempts to determine a solution more driver-oriented by designing a short trip in a specific…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Sana Ouasaid , Mohammed Saddoune

Multi-vehicle routing has become increasingly important with the rapid development of autonomous vehicle technology. Dial-a-ride problem, a variant of vehicle routing problem (VRP), deals with the allocation of customer requests to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Songguang Ho , Sarat Chandra Nagavarapu , Ramesh Ramasamy Pandi , Justin Dauwels

Urban mobility systems are transitioning toward electric, on-demand services, creating operational challenges for fleet management under energy and service-quality constraints. The Electric Dial-a-Ride Problem (E-DARP) extends the classical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Sten Elling Tingstad Jacobsen , Attila Lischka , Balázs Kulcsár , Anders Lindman

In the Online-Dial-a-Ride Problem (OLDARP) a server travels through a metric space to serve requests for rides. We consider a variant where each request specifies a source, destination, release time, and revenue that is earned for serving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Ananya Christman , Christine Chung , Nicholas Jaczko , Tianzhi Li , Scott Westvold , Xinyue Xu

Microtransit offers a promising blend of rideshare flexibility and public transit efficiency. In practice, it faces unanticipated but spatially aligned requests, passengers seeking to join ongoing schedules, leading to underutilized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Hongli Li , Zengxiang Lei , Xinwu Qian , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Accurately predicting the real-life performance of algorithms solving the Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) in the context of Mobility on Demand (MoD) systems with ridesharing requires evaluating them on representative instances. However, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-31 David Fiedler , Jan Mrkos

Some of today's most significant challenges in urban environments concern individual mobility and rapid parcel delivery. With the surge of e-commerce and the ever-increasing volume of goods to be handled, new logistic solutions are in high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Ana Beatriz Herthel , Richard Hartl , Anand Subramanian , Thibaut Vidal

This paper investigates the Electric Autonomous Dial-A-Ride Problem (E-ADARP), which consists in designing a set of minimum-cost routes that accommodates all customer requests for a fleet of Electric Autonomous Vehicles (EAVs).…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Yue Su , Jakob Puchinger , Nicolas Dupin

The electric autonomous dial-a-ride problem (E-ADARP) introduces electric, autonomously driving vehicles and their unique requirements into the classic dial-a-ride problem, where people are transported between pickup and drop-off locations.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Yue Su , Sophie N. Parragh , Nicolas Dupin , Jakob Puchinger

Dial-a-ride problem (DARP) deals with the transportation of users between pickup and drop-off locations associated with specified time windows. This paper proposes a novel algorithm called multi-atomic annealing (MATA) to solve static…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Song Guang Ho , Ramesh Ramasamy Pandi , Sarat Chandra Nagavarapu , Justin Dauwels
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