A novel taxi dispatch system for smart city

作者:Zou, Qingnan; Xue, Guangtao; Luo, Yuan; Yu, Jiadi; Zhu, Hongzi
来源:1st International Conference on Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2013, Held as Part of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013, United States, 2013-07-21 to 2013-07-26.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-39351-8_36

摘要

Taxis as a kind of public transit have been taken by citizens thousands of times every day in urban areas. However, it is economically inefficient for vacant taxis to randomly cruise around to seek for passengers. In this paper, we propose a dynamic taxi dispatch system for smart city which dispatches routes with high probability to encounter passengers for vacant taxis. In the system, a dynamic probabilistic model has been established, which considers the impact of time on passenger appearance and the effect of different vacant taxis traveling route on each other's pick-up probability. Specifically, a novel feedback system has been introduced in the system, which utilizes the information about where taxis pick up passengers to amend system probabilistic model. Moreover, extensive trace-driven simulations based on real digital map of Shanghai and historical data of over 2,000 taxis demonstrate the good performance of our system.

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