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TRACE - Administration
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Modeling and Optimization of Ridesplitting Operations
Ridesourcing has driven a lot of attention in recent years with the expansion of companies like Uber, Lift, and many others around the world. Companies use mobile applications connected through the internet to match drivers and their passengers real-time. ...
EPFL2023OASIS: Optimisation-based Activity Scheduling with Integrated Simultaneous choice dimensions
Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Janody Pougala
Activity-based models offer the potential of a far deeper understanding of daily mobility behaviour than trip-based models. However, activity-based models used both in research and practice have often relied on applying sequential choice models between sub ...
2023Analysing the potential for modal shiftbased on the logic of modal choice
Vincent Kaufmann, Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse, Ludy Juliana González Villamizar
This article explores how the logic underlying modal practices tends to modulate the population’s responsiveness to improvements in global transport supply. Based on a quantitative survey conducted in 2018–2019 among the working population of the cantons o ...
2023Pedestrian Crossings as a Means of Reducing Conflicts between Cyclists and Pedestrians in Shared Spaces
One significant and simultaneously interesting problem in urban mobility has to do with the study of shared spaces where various categories of users coexist and act together. This paper aims to examine the behavior and preferences of pedestrians and cyclis ...
2023A general framework to evaluate different rebalancing operations strategies in one-way car sharing systems
Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Ataç
Car sharing systems (CSSs) are one of the environmentally beneficial solutions in urban transportation. However, the operators still struggle to make these systems profitable. One of the main contributors in operational cost is rebalancing operations. Ther ...
Springer2023Mapping the Charging Demand for Electric Vehicles in 2050 from Mobility Habits
Christophe Ballif, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin
This paper proposes a method to spatially model and compare charging needs on the European scale considering local disparities in population density, distance to city centres, car ownership and mobility habits. Mobility habits are modelled across Europe in ...
2023Sampling of alternatives in migration aspiration models
Michel Bierlaire, Evangelos Paschalidis
The use of discrete choice models (DCMs) is a regular approach to investigating migration aspirations concerning destination choices. However, given the complex substitution patterns between destinations, more advanced model specifications than the multino ...
2023Routing and charging game in ride-hailing service with electric vehicles
This paper studies the routing and charging behaviors of electric vehicles in a competitive ride-hailing market. When the vehicles are idle, they can choose whether to continue cruising to search for passengers, or move a charging station to recharge. The ...
New York2023Simulating intra-household interactions for in- and out-of-home activity scheduling
Michel Bierlaire, Timothy Michael Hillel, Negar Rezvany
Various interactions, time arrangements, and constraints exist for individuals scheduling their day as a member of a household, which affect their in-home as well as out-of-home activity schedule. However, the existing activity-based models are mostly base ...
Oxford2023A hybrid microscopic model for multimodal traffic with empirical observations from aerial footage
Microscopic traffic flow models can be distinguished in lane-based or lane-free depending on the degree of lane-discipline. This distinction holds true only if motorcycles are neglected in lane-based traffic. In cities, as opposed to highways, this is an o ...
National Academies2023