Shared Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand: Learning-based approach and its performance in the presence of traffic congestion

Maxime Gueriau, Federico Cugurullo, Ransford A. Acheampong, Ivana Dusparic

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Abstract

Mobility-on-demand systems consisting of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) are expected to improve the efficiency of urban mobility through reduced vehicle ownership and parking demand. However, several issues in their implementation remain open, such as unifying the vehicle and ride-sharing assignment with rebalancing non-occupied vehicles. Furthermore, proposed SAV systems are evaluated in isolation from other traffic; no congestion is taken into account when assigning requests or calculating routes. To address this gap, we present
Shared Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand system (SAMoD), a reinforcement learning-based approach to vehicle relocation and ride-sharing request assignment. Each vehicle learns its pick-up and rebalancing behaviour based on local current and observed historical demand. We evaluate SAMoD on Manhattan network using NYC taxi data in microsimulator SUMO. We investigate SAMoD performance in the presence of congestion generated by private vehicles, as well as investigate impact of different percentages of SAMoD vehicles in the system on overall traffic network performance
Original languageEnglish
JournalIEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Publication statusPublished - 15 Feb 2020

Keywords

  • ride-sharing
  • mobility-on-demand
  • traffic congestion
  • shared autonomous vehicles

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