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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Real-time dispatching of large-scale ride-sharing systems: Integrating optimization, machine learning, and model predictive control

C Riley, P Van Hentenryck, E Yuan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.10942, 2020 - arxiv.org
This paper considers the dispatching of large-scale real-time ride-sharing systems to
address congestion issues faced by many cities. The goal is to serve all customers (service …

A taxi order dispatch model based on combinatorial optimization

L Zhang, T Hu, Y Min, G Wu, J Zhang, P Feng… - Proceedings of the 23rd …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Taxi-booking apps have been very popular all over the world as they provide convenience
such as fast response time to the users. The key component of a taxi-booking app is the …

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 …