Analysis and control of autonomous mobility-on-demand systems

G Zardini, N Lanzetti, M Pavone… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Challenged by urbanization and increasing travel needs, existing transportation systems
need new mobility paradigms. In this article, we present the emerging concept of …

Carsharing systems demand estimation and defined operations: a literature review

D Jorge, G Correia - European Journal of Transport and …, 2013 - journals.open.tudelft.nl
Efforts have been made in the last few decades to provide new urban transport alternatives.
One of these is carsharing, which involves a fleet of vehicles scattered around a city for the …

Toward a systematic approach to the design and evaluation of automated mobility-on-demand systems: A case study in Singapore

K Spieser, K Treleaven, R Zhang, E Frazzoli… - Road vehicle …, 2014 - Springer
The objective of this work is to provide analytical guidelines and financial justification for the
design of shared-vehicle mobility-on-demand systems. Specifically, we consider the …

Control of robotic mobility-on-demand systems: a queueing-theoretical perspective

R Zhang, M Pavone - The International Journal of Robotics …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
In this paper we present queueing-theoretical methods for the modeling, analysis, and
control of autonomous mobility-on-demand (MOD) systems wherein robotic, self-driving …

Fleet operational policies for automated mobility: A simulation assessment for Zurich

S Hörl, C Ruch, F Becker, E Frazzoli… - … Research Part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
We evaluate performance of four different operational policies to control an automated
mobility-on-demand system with sequential vehicle-sharing in one public open-source …

Model predictive control of autonomous mobility-on-demand systems

R Zhang, F Rossi, M Pavone - 2016 IEEE international …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we present a model predictive control (MPC) approach to optimize vehicle
scheduling and routing in an autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) system. In AMoD …

Vehicle relocation in one-way station-based electric carsharing systems: A comparative study of operator-based and user-based methods

K Huang, K An, J Rich, W Ma - … Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper compares the efficiency of two relocation methods in a one-way station-based
electric car sharing system. First, an operator-based model is considered where relocations …

Vehicle relocation and staff rebalancing in one-way carsharing systems

M Nourinejad, S Zhu, S Bahrami, MJ Roorda - Transportation Research Part …, 2015 - Elsevier
A solution to the imbalance of vehicles in one-way carsharing systems is vehicle relocation
which involves staff members to redistribute the vehicles between stations. Vehicle …

Microsimulation of demand and supply of autonomous mobility on demand

CL Azevedo, K Marczuk, S Raveau… - Transportation …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Agent-based models have gained wide acceptance in transportation planning because with
increasing computational power, large-scale people-centric mobility simulations are …

Design framework of large-scale one-way electric vehicle sharing systems: A continuum approximation model

X Li, J Ma, J Cui, A Ghiasi, F Zhou - Transportation Research Part B …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a Continuum Approximation (CA) model for design of a one-way
Electrical Vehicle (EV) sharing system that serves a metropolitan area. This model …