摘要: |
Driven by the development of vehicle connectivity and automation,
shared-use mobility services are expected to play a major role in meeting
urban mobility needs. However, existing network equilibrium models
cannot adequately model these emerging services, as these models are
trip centric, assigning vehicular trips to transportation networks. With
shared-use mobility, vehicular trips are the outcome of the interactions
between service operators and travelers, a missing ingredient in the
current network equilibrium analysis methodology. In this study, the researchers will
enhance the methodology by explicitly modeling the behaviors of both
service operators and travelers. They will consider two implementations of
shared-use mobility: one of a decentralized system in which vehicles
choose which areas to serve based on their individually defined utility
functions, and one of a centralized system in which a shared-use mobility
service provider optimally assigns vehicles to requests based on a system level
objective function. The proposed models are expected to enhance
the planning practice for shared-use mobility services. |