Privately owned autonomous vehicles in a ride-sharing application

Abood Mourad (1, 2) , Jakob Puchinger (1, 2) , Chengbin Chu (1)

1 LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606
2 IRT SystemX

In this paper, we consider the planning of privately owned autonomous vehicles’ trips in a ride-sharing application. Emerging challenges, such as the finite oil supplies, rising gas prices and traffic congestion, going in hand with the environmental concerns have increased the interest in ride-sharing applications that can bring together travelers with similar time schedules [1]. Those arising challenges justify the need of new transport innovations, like autonomous (most likely electric) vehicles, which will play a major role in future mobility systems. Regarding autonomous vehicles (AVs), two ways of using AVs in future transportation systems are widely being considered. These are: using autonomous vehicles as a public service and using them as privately owned ones. As such, this paper considers the use of autonomous vehicles (AV) as privately owned ones and the potential use of such vehicles in a ride-sharing system.

Mots clés: Operational research; autonomous vehicles; ride-sharing; meeting points

Domaines: Recherche opérationnelle [math.OC]; Optimisation et contrôle [math.OC]

Abood Mourad, Jakob Puchinger, Chengbin Chu. Privately owned autonomous vehicles in a ride-sharing application. 18ème Congrès annuel de la Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision (ROADEF 2017), Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision - Université de Lorraine, Feb 2017, Metz, France. ⟨hal-01505742⟩