Autonomous vehicles are becoming a reality. In particular, podcars were already launched in pilot projects. The wide use of such vehicles for personal transportation in urban areas is then just a matter of time and poses several research challenges and technical issues to the artificial intelligence and multiagent communities. This article focuses on issues related to the processing of demands for these vehicles and on routing them in an efficient way. An agent-based approach is proposed, which considers some variants for the processing of demands and for the routing. First, a centralized version is discussed. Then, extensions deal with decentralized routing, with enroute planning, intervehicle communication, and with a market-based approach where the manager of the service runs an auction to determine which customer to serve. All these variants aim at testing alternatives in order to shed light onto questions such as how the podcar service is to be provided and how trips have to be planned, as well as address challenges related to the management. Results show that, although this service can be provided by a central authority, communication, as well as reliability and fault-tolerance, should not be neglected.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Management of Demand and Routing in Autonomous Personal Transportation


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2012-01-01




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown






    ROUTING OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

    GOLDMAN BRENT / FORSTER JACOB ROBERT | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access

    Coordinating on-demand transportation with autonomous vehicles

    SWEENEY MATTHEW / LEVANDOWSKI ANTHONY | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access

    JOINT ROUTING OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

    GOLDMAN BRENT / FORSTER JACOB ROBERT | European Patent Office | 2022

    Free access