Title

Dynamic User Equilibrium of Mobility-on-Demand System with Linear Programming Rebalancing Strategy

Time

1:40pm - 3:00pm

Location

1605 Tilia, Room 1103, West Village

Abstract

Mobility-on-demand (MoD) services are provided by multiple competing companies. In their competition for travelers, they need to provide minimum travel costs, or travelers will switch to competitors. This study developed a dynamic traffic assignment of MoD systems. A static traffic assignment (STA) model is first defined. When demand is asymmetric, empty rebalancing trips are required to move vehicles to traveler origins, and the optimal rebalancing flows are found by a linear program. Because of the time-dependent nature of traveler demand, the model was converted to dynamic traffic assignment (DTA). The method of successive averages, which is provably convergent for STA, was used to find dynamic user equilibrium (DUE). The simulation was conducted on two networks. The MoD system was simulated with different fleet sizes and demands. The results showed that the average total delay and travel distance decreased with the increase in fleet size whereas the average on-road travel time increased with the fleet size. The result of traffic assignment of one network with MoD system was compared with a network where all travelers use private vehicles. The results showed that the network with MoD system created more trips but less traffic congestion.

Biographical Sketch

Rongsheng Chen is currently a Ph.D. student in the department of civil, environmental, and geo-engineering at The University of Minnesota under the supervision of Dr. Michael Levin. He received his bachelor’s degree from Beijing Jiaotong University, China, in 2015 and his master’s degree from the University of Minnesota in 2017. His primary research includes the intersection control algorithm for autonomous vehicles and the mobility-on-demand system.