On-demand Robotic Fleet Routing in Capacitated Networks with Time-varying Transportation Demand

Martin Schaefer, Michal Čáp, David Fiedler, Jiří Vokřínek

2021

Abstract

In large-scale automated mobility-on-demand systems, the fleet manager is able to assign routes to individual automated vehicles in a way that minimizes formation of congestion. We formalize the problem of on-demand fleet routing in capacitated networks with time-varying demand. We demonstrate the limits of application of the steady-state flows approach in systems with time-varying demand and formulate a linear program to compute congestion-free routes for the vehicles in capacitated networks under time-varying demand. We evaluate the proposed approach in the simulation of a simplified, but characteristic illustrative example. The experiment reveals that the proposed routing approach can route 42% more traffic in congestion-free regime than the steady-state flow approach through the same network.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Schaefer M., Čáp M., Fiedler D. and Vokřínek J. (2021). On-demand Robotic Fleet Routing in Capacitated Networks with Time-varying Transportation Demand.In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-484-8, pages 907-915. DOI: 10.5220/0010261009070915

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart21,
author={Martin Schaefer and Michal Čáp and David Fiedler and Jiří Vokřínek},
title={On-demand Robotic Fleet Routing in Capacitated Networks with Time-varying Transportation Demand},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2021},
pages={907-915},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010261009070915},
isbn={978-989-758-484-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - On-demand Robotic Fleet Routing in Capacitated Networks with Time-varying Transportation Demand
SN - 978-989-758-484-8
AU - Schaefer M.
AU - Čáp M.
AU - Fiedler D.
AU - Vokřínek J.
PY - 2021
SP - 907
EP - 915
DO - 10.5220/0010261009070915