Combinatorial optimization meets reinforcement learning: Effective taxi order dispatching at large-scale

Y Tong, D Shi, Y Xu, W Lv, Z Qin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ride hailing has become prevailing. Central in ride hailing platforms is taxi order
dispatching which involves recommending a suitable driver for each order. Previous works …

Context-aware taxi dispatching at city-scale using deep reinforcement learning

Z Liu, J Li, K Wu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Proactive taxi dispatching is of great importance to balance taxi demand-supply gaps among
different locations in a city. Recent advances primarily rely on deep reinforcement learning …

Supply-demand-aware deep reinforcement learning for dynamic fleet management

B Zheng, L Ming, Q Hu, Z Lü, G Liu… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Online ride-hailing platforms have reduced significantly the amounts of the time that taxis are
idle and that passengers spend on waiting. As a key component of these platforms, the fleet …

An integrated reinforcement learning and centralized programming approach for online taxi dispatching

E Liang, K Wen, WHK Lam, A Sumalee… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Balancing the supply and demand for ride-sourcing companies is a challenging issue,
especially with real-time requests and stochastic traffic conditions of large-scale congested …

A robust deep reinforcement learning approach to driverless taxi dispatching under uncertain demand

X Zhou, L Wu, Y Zhang, ZS Chen, S Jiang - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
With the progressive technological advancement of autonomous vehicles, taxi service
providers are expected to offer driverless taxi systems that alleviate traffic congestion and …

Deep reinforcement learning with knowledge transfer for online rides order dispatching

Z Wang, Z Qin, X Tang, J Ye… - 2018 IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ride dispatching is a central operation task on a ride-sharing platform to continuously match
drivers to trip-requesting passengers. In this work, we model the ride dispatching problem as …

Fed-LTD: Towards cross-platform ride hailing via federated learning to dispatch

Y Wang, Y Tong, Z Zhou, Z Ren, Y Xu, G Wu… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Learning based order dispatching has witnessed tremendous success in ride hailing.
However, the success halts within individual ride hailing platforms because sharing raw …

Ride-hailing order dispatching at didi via reinforcement learning

Z Qin, X Tang, Y Jiao, F Zhang, Z Xu… - … Journal on Applied …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Order dispatching is instrumental to the marketplace engine of a large-scale ride-hailing
platform, such as the DiDi platform, which continuously matches passenger trip requests to …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning for order-dispatching via order-vehicle distribution matching

M Zhou, J Jin, W Zhang, Z Qin, Y Jiao, C Wang… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Improving the efficiency of dispatching orders to vehicles is a research hotspot in online ride-
hailing systems. Most of the existing solutions for order-dispatching are centralized …

Large-scale order dispatch in on-demand ride-hailing platforms: A learning and planning approach

Z Xu, Z Li, Q Guan, D Zhang, Q Li, J Nan, C Liu… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel order dispatch algorithm in large-scale on-demand ride-hailing
platforms. While traditional order dispatch approaches usually focus on immediate customer …