On the Interaction between Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand and Public Transportation Systems
This addresses urban transportation efficiency for city planners and mobility providers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing models with new coordination policies.
The paper tackles the problem of coordinating Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) fleets with public transit to maximize social welfare, showing that such coordination yields significant benefits compared to isolated AMoD systems in a real-world case study for New York City.
In this paper we study models and coordination policies for intermodal Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD), wherein a fleet of self-driving vehicles provides on-demand mobility jointly with public transit. Specifically, we first present a network flow model for intermodal AMoD, where we capture the coupling between AMoD and public transit and the goal is to maximize social welfare. Second, leveraging such a model, we design a pricing and tolling scheme that allows to achieve the social optimum under the assumption of a perfect market with selfish agents. Finally, we present a real-world case study for New York City. Our results show that the coordination between AMoD fleets and public transit can yield significant benefits compared to an AMoD system operating in isolation.