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A Game Theoretic Approach for the Taxi Scheduling Problem with Street Hailing. In proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA 2011), 9-11 August 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, pages 161-172, 2011.
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This paper describes a taxi scheduling system to improve the efficiency of taxi services which are mainly implemented by means of street hailing. This is of particular relevance to Chinese cities, where this is by far the most common way in which taxis are requested, since the majority of taxi drivers are independent rather than being affiliated with a specific company. The mobile phone and GPS-based taxi scheduling system which is described in this paper aims to provide a decision support system for taxi drivers and facilitates information exchange between taxi drivers and passengers, while allowing drivers to remain independent. The taxi scheduling problem is considered to be a non-cooperative game between taxi drivers and a description of this problem is given in this paper. We adopt an efficient algorithm to discover a Nash equilibrium, such that each taxi driver and passenger cannot benefit from changing their assigned partner. Two computational examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the approach.
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@INPROCEEDINGS{2011-161-172-P, author = {R. Bai and J. Li and J. A D Atkin and G. Kendall},
title = {A Game Theoretic Approach for the Taxi Scheduling Problem with Street Hailing},
booktitle = {In proceedings of the 5th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA 2011), 9-11 August 2011, Phoenix, Arizona, USA},
year = {2011},
editor = {J. Fowler and G. Kendall and B. McCollum},
pages = {161--172},
note = {Paper},
abstract = {This paper describes a taxi scheduling system to improve the efficiency of taxi services which are mainly implemented by means of street hailing. This is of particular relevance to Chinese cities, where this is by far the most common way in which taxis are requested, since the majority of taxi drivers are independent rather than being affiliated with a specific company. The mobile phone and GPS-based taxi scheduling system which is described in this paper aims to provide a decision support system for taxi drivers and facilitates information exchange between taxi drivers and passengers, while allowing drivers to remain independent. The taxi scheduling problem is considered to be a non-cooperative game between taxi drivers and a description of this problem is given in this paper. We adopt an efficient algorithm to discover a Nash equilibrium, such that each taxi driver and passenger cannot benefit from changing their assigned partner. Two computational examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the approach.},
owner = {gxk},
timestamp = {2011.08.15},
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