The advancement of self-driving technologies facilitates the emergence of autonomous minibuses (ABs) in public transportation, which could provide flexible, reliable, and safe mobility services. This study develops an AB routing and scheduling model considering each passenger’s arrival reliability and travel risk. Firstly, to guarantee each passenger’s arrival on time, the arrival reliability (a predetermined threshold of on-time arrival probability of α ​= ​0.9) is included in the constraints. Secondly, three objectives, including system costs, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and travel risk, are optimized in the model. To assess the travel risk of ABs, an enhanced method based on kernel density estimation (KDE) is proposed. Thirdly, an advanced multi-objective adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm (MOALNS) is designed to find the Pareto optimal set. Finally, experiments are conducted in Shanghai to validate model performance. Results show that it can decrease GHG emissions (−2.12%) and risk (−9.47%), while only increasing costs by 2.02%. Furthermore, the proposed arrival reliability constraint can improve an average of 14.70% of passengers to meet their arrival reliability requirement (α ​= ​0.9).


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    Title :

    Multi-objective optimization model of autonomous minibus considering passenger arrival reliability and travel risk


    Contributors:
    Zhicheng Jin (author) / Haoyang Mao (author) / Di Chen (author) / Hao Li (author) / Huizhao Tu (author) / Ying Yang (author) / Maria Attard (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown




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