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A Dynamic Tree Algorithm for On-demand Peer-to-peer Ride-sharing Matching

Rui Yao·Shlomo Bekhor
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Innovative shared mobility services provide on-demand flexible mobility options and have the potential to alleviate traffic congestion. These attractive services are challenging from different perspectives. One major challenge in such systems is to find suitable ride-sharing matchings between drivers and passengers with respect to the system objective and constraints, and to provide optimal pickup and drop-off sequence to the drivers. In this paper, we develop an efficient dynamic tree algorithm to find the optimal pickup and drop-off sequence. The algorithm finds an initial solution to the problem, keeps track of previously explored feasible solutions, and reduces the solution search space when considering new requests. In addition, an efficient pre-processing procedure to select candidate passenger requests is proposed, which further improves the algorithm performance. Numerical experiments are conducted on a real size network to illustrate the efficiency of our algorithm. Sensitivity analysis suggests that small vehicle capacities and loose excess travel time constraints do not guarantee overall savings in vehicle kilometer traveled.

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Rui Yao, Shlomo Bekhor. 2020-05-22. A Dynamic Tree Algorithm for On-demand Peer-to-peer Ride-sharing Matching. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11195

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