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 …

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 …

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 …

Dispatch of autonomous vehicles for taxi services: A deep reinforcement learning approach

C Mao, Y Liu, ZJM Shen - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we define and investigate a novel model-free deep reinforcement learning
framework to solve the taxi dispatch problem. The framework can be used to redistribute …

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 …

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 …

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 …

AdaPool: An adaptive model-free ride-sharing approach for dispatching using deep reinforcement learning

M Haliem, V Aggarwal, B Bhargava - Proceedings of the 7th ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) suffer from catastrophic forgetting due to being agnostic
to the timescale of changes in the distribution of experiences. Although, RL algorithms are …

Price and time optimization for utility-aware taxi dispatching

Y Hikima, M Kohjima, Y Akagi, T Kurashima… - PRICAI 2021: Trends in …, 2021 - Springer
The recent enhancement of taxi dispatch services with information technology has enabled
data-driven pricing and dispatch. However, existing studies failed to address differences in …

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 …