Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) systems require load balancing to maintain consistent service across regions with uneven demand subject to time-varying traffic conditions. The load-balancing objective is to jointly minimize the fraction of lost user requests due to vehicle unavailability and the fraction of time when vehicles drive empty during load balancing operations. In order to bypass the intractability of a globally optimal solution to this stochastic dynamic optimization problem, we propose a parametric threshold-based control driven by the vehicles available in and en route to each region. This is still a difficult parametric optimization problem for which one often resorts to trial-and-error methods where multiple sample paths are generated through simulation. In contrast, this paper utilizes concurrent estimation methods to simultaneously construct multiple sample paths from a single nominal sample path. The performance of the parametric controller for intermediate size systems is compared to that of a simpler single-parameter controller, a state-blind static controller, a policy of no control, and a theoretically-derived lower bound. Simulation results show the value of state information in improving performance.


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    Title :

    Load Balancing in Mobility-on-Demand Systems: Reallocation Via Parametric Control Using Concurrent Estimation


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    Publication date :

    2019-10-01


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    473430 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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