Vehicle scheduling for on-demand vehicle fleets in macroscopic travel demand models

Abstract The planning of on-demand services requires the formation vehicle schedules consisting service trips and empty trips. This paper presents an algorithm for building that uses time-dependent demand matrices (= trips) as input determines trip number required vehicles a result. presented approach is intended long-term, strategic transport planning. For this purpose, it provides planners with estimate fleet size distance travelled by services. can be applied to integer non-integer therefore particularly suitable macroscopic travel models. Two case studies illustrate potential applications feature considered in