META: A city-wide taxi repositioning framework based on multi-agent reinforcement learning

C Liu, CX Chen, C Chen - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The popularity of online ride-hailing platforms has made people travel smarter than ever
before. But people still frequently encounter the dilemma of “taxi drivers hunt passengers …

Multiagent Reinforcement Learning‐Based Taxi Predispatching Model to Balance Taxi Supply and Demand

Y Yang, X Wang, Y Xu, Q Huang - Journal of Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the improvement of people's living standards, people's demand of traveling by taxi is
increasing, but the taxi service system is not perfect yet; taxi drivers usually rely on their …

Augmenting decisions of taxi drivers through reinforcement learning for improving revenues

T Verma, P Varakantham, S Kraus… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - ojs.aaai.org
Taxis (which include cars working with car aggregation systems such as Uber, Grab, Lyft
etc.) have become a critical component in the urban transportation. While most research and …

Multi-agent reinforcement learning to unify order-matching and vehicle-repositioning in ride-hailing services

M Xu, P Yue, F Yu, C Yang, M Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The popularity of ride-hailing platforms has significantly improved travel efficiency by
providing convenient and personalized transportation services. Designing an effective ride …

Using reinforcement learning to minimize taxi idle times

K O'Keeffe, S Anklesaria, P Santi… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Taxis spend a large amount of time idle, searching for passengers. The routes vacant taxis
should follow in order to minimize their idle times are hard to calculate; they depend on …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Reward design for driver repositioning using multi-agent reinforcement learning

Z Shou, X Di - Transportation research part C: emerging technologies, 2020 - Elsevier
A large portion of passenger requests is reportedly unserviced, partially due to vacant for-
hire drivers' cruising behavior during the passenger seeking process. This paper aims to …