Integrating On-demand Ride-sharing with Mass Transit at-Scale

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Auteurs principaux: Edirimanna, Danushka, Hu, Hins, Samaranayake, Samitha
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Publié: 2024
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author Edirimanna, Danushka
Hu, Hins
Samaranayake, Samitha
author_facet Edirimanna, Danushka
Hu, Hins
Samaranayake, Samitha
contents 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 sustainability, congestion, and equity. On the other hand, mass transit provides a means to move large amounts of travelers very efficiently, but is not very versatile and depends on an adequate concentration of demand. In this context, our overarching goal is to explore opportunities for new technologies such as ride-sharing to integrate with mass transit and provide a better service. More specifically, we envision a hybrid system that uses on-demand shuttles in conjunction with mass transit to move passengers efficiently, and provide an algorithmic framework for operational optimization. Our approach extends a state-of-the-art trip-vehicle assignment model to the multi-modal setting, where we develop a new integer-linear programming formulation to solve the problem efficiently. A comprehensive study covering five major cities in the United States based on real-world data is carried out to verify the advantages of such a system and the effectiveness of our algorithms. We show that our hybrid system provides significant improvements in comparison to a purely on-demand model by exploiting the efficiencies of the mass transit system.
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spellingShingle Integrating On-demand Ride-sharing with Mass Transit at-Scale
Edirimanna, Danushka
Hu, Hins
Samaranayake, Samitha
Discrete Mathematics
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 sustainability, congestion, and equity. On the other hand, mass transit provides a means to move large amounts of travelers very efficiently, but is not very versatile and depends on an adequate concentration of demand. In this context, our overarching goal is to explore opportunities for new technologies such as ride-sharing to integrate with mass transit and provide a better service. More specifically, we envision a hybrid system that uses on-demand shuttles in conjunction with mass transit to move passengers efficiently, and provide an algorithmic framework for operational optimization. Our approach extends a state-of-the-art trip-vehicle assignment model to the multi-modal setting, where we develop a new integer-linear programming formulation to solve the problem efficiently. A comprehensive study covering five major cities in the United States based on real-world data is carried out to verify the advantages of such a system and the effectiveness of our algorithms. We show that our hybrid system provides significant improvements in comparison to a purely on-demand model by exploiting the efficiencies of the mass transit system.
title Integrating On-demand Ride-sharing with Mass Transit at-Scale
topic Discrete Mathematics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07691