Aggregated Modeling of Urban Taxi Services

Agent Based Modelling for Simulating Taxi Services

Taxi services account for a significant part of the daily trips in most of cities around the world. Due to the fact that most of the taxi markets are regulated by a central authority there is the need for developing tools for understanding the behavior of these markets to policy regulations and supporting decision makers. This paper presents an agent based model for simulating taxi services in ...

Investigating the Value of Location Information in Taxi Dispatching Services: A case study of DaZhong Taxi

Location-based service is often quoted as one of the killer applications of mobile commerce. However, there is no theoretical analysis on the real value of location information in location-based mobile services. In this paper we introduce four types of dispatching models and analyze how location information is obtained and used to support dispatch services. The value of GPS-based dispatching se...

Modeling and Control of Aggregated Heterogeneous Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Ancillary Services

This paper presents a novel modeling and control approach for the aggregation of large numbers of heterogeneous thermostatically controlled loads, such as refrigerators, electric water heaters, and air conditioners, and their usage for Demand Response. Unlike traditional Demand Response methods that act on time scales of hours, this approach is able to provide short-term (e.g., second-to-second...

Measuring the Efficiency of Urban Taxi Service System

The taxi service systems in big cities are immensely complex due to the interaction and self-organization between taxi drivers and passengers. An inefficient taxi service system leads to more empty trips for drivers and longer waiting time for passengers, and introduces unnecessary congestion to road network. Although understanding the performance of urban taxi service system is important, the ...

Modeling Social Information Learning among Taxi Drivers