Modeling and Testing Autonomous and Shared Multimodal Mobility Services for Low-Density Rural Areas

Chen, Xin; Ouyang, Yanfeng; Arian, Ebrahim; Yang, Haolin; Ba, Xingyu

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Title

Modeling and Testing Autonomous and Shared Multimodal Mobility Services for Low-Density Rural Areas

Author(s)

• Chen, Xin
• Ouyang, Yanfeng
• Arian, Ebrahim
• Yang, Haolin
• Ba, Xingyu

Issue Date

2022-08

Keyword(s)

• Dynamic Vehicle Routing
• Ride Sharing
• Approximate Dynamic Programming
• Demand-Responsive Transportation
• Flexible Transit
• Dial-a-Ride Service
• Agent-Based Simulation

Abstract

Recent developments in transformative technologies hold the promise to provide holistic solutions for affordable transportation services to rural areas and thus greatly alleviate existing social inequality through efficient planning and management of complex transportation systems and systemwide interactions among multiple modes. To realize the promise, many challenging research questions need to be addressed, which often leads to computationally intractable, large-scale, dynamic/stochastic, discrete optimization models. This project proposes to address some of the challenges by building a series of holistic and tractable models on the design of mobility services, capacity planning, dynamic matching, and routing, as well as pricing. The proposed project is expected to create a new series of planning and management models that can support strategical and operational decisions for large-scale autonomous and shared mobility systems in rural areas. The planned case study and simulation for the Village of Rantoul, Illinois, will lay the foundation for future field implementation.

Publisher

Illinois Center for Transportation

Series/Report Name or Number

I-ACT-21-05

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

technical report

Language

en

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No restrictions. This document is available through the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161.

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