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Spatio-Temporal Matching for Urban Transportation Applications

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Bhaskar Dasgupta,

Bo XuAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS), Volume 3, Issue 4

Article No.: 11, Pages 1 - 39

https://doi.org/10.1145/3183344

Published: 04 May 2018 Publication History

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In this article, we present a search problem in which mobile agents are searching for static resources. Each agent wants to obtain exactly one resource. Both agents and resources are spatially located on a road network and the movement of the agents is constrained to the road network. This problem applies to various transportation applications including: vehicles (agents) searching for parking (resources) and taxicabs (agents) searching for clients to pick up (resources). In this work, we design search algorithms for such scenarios. We model the problem in different scenarios that vary based on the level of information that is available to the agents. These scenarios vary from scenarios in which agents have complete information about other agents and resources, to scenarios in which agents only have access to a fraction of the data about the availability of resources (uncertain data). We also propose pricing schemes that incentivize vehicles to search for resources in a way that benefits the system and the environment. Our proposed algorithms were tested in a simulation environment that uses real-world data. We were able to attain up to 40% improvements over other approaches that were tested against our algorithms.

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Index Terms

Spatio-Temporal Matching for Urban Transportation Applications
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Mobile information processing systems
    2. Spatial-temporal systems
      1. Location based services
2. Theory of computation
  1. Theory and algorithms for application domains
    1. Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design
      1. Computational pricing and auctions

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ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems Volume 3, Issue 4

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