Robo-taxi Fleet Coordination at Scale via Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors: Tresca, Luigi, Schmidt, Carolin, Harrison, James, Rodrigues, Filipe, Zardini, Gioele, Gammelli, Daniele, Pavone, Marco
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author Tresca, Luigi
Schmidt, Carolin
Harrison, James
Rodrigues, Filipe
Zardini, Gioele
Gammelli, Daniele
Pavone, Marco
author_facet Tresca, Luigi
Schmidt, Carolin
Harrison, James
Rodrigues, Filipe
Zardini, Gioele
Gammelli, Daniele
Pavone, Marco
contents Fleets of robo-taxis offering on-demand transportation services, commonly known as Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems, hold significant promise for societal benefits, such as reducing pollution, energy consumption, and urban congestion. However, orchestrating these systems at scale remains a critical challenge, with existing coordination algorithms often failing to exploit the systems' full potential. This work introduces a novel decision-making framework that unites mathematical modeling with data-driven techniques. In particular, we present the AMoD coordination problem through the lens of reinforcement learning and propose a graph network-based framework that exploits the main strengths of graph representation learning, reinforcement learning, and classical operations research tools. Extensive evaluations across diverse simulation fidelities and scenarios demonstrate the flexibility of our approach, achieving superior system performance, computational efficiency, and generalizability compared to prior methods. Finally, motivated by the need to democratize research efforts in this area, we release publicly available benchmarks, datasets, and simulators for network-level coordination alongside an open-source codebase designed to provide accessible simulation platforms and establish a standardized validation process for comparing methodologies. Code available at: https://github.com/StanfordASL/RL4AMOD
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spellingShingle Robo-taxi Fleet Coordination at Scale via Reinforcement Learning
Tresca, Luigi
Schmidt, Carolin
Harrison, James
Rodrigues, Filipe
Zardini, Gioele
Gammelli, Daniele
Pavone, Marco
Machine Learning
Systems and Control
Fleets of robo-taxis offering on-demand transportation services, commonly known as Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) systems, hold significant promise for societal benefits, such as reducing pollution, energy consumption, and urban congestion. However, orchestrating these systems at scale remains a critical challenge, with existing coordination algorithms often failing to exploit the systems' full potential. This work introduces a novel decision-making framework that unites mathematical modeling with data-driven techniques. In particular, we present the AMoD coordination problem through the lens of reinforcement learning and propose a graph network-based framework that exploits the main strengths of graph representation learning, reinforcement learning, and classical operations research tools. Extensive evaluations across diverse simulation fidelities and scenarios demonstrate the flexibility of our approach, achieving superior system performance, computational efficiency, and generalizability compared to prior methods. Finally, motivated by the need to democratize research efforts in this area, we release publicly available benchmarks, datasets, and simulators for network-level coordination alongside an open-source codebase designed to provide accessible simulation platforms and establish a standardized validation process for comparing methodologies. Code available at: https://github.com/StanfordASL/RL4AMOD
title Robo-taxi Fleet Coordination at Scale via Reinforcement Learning
topic Machine Learning
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06125