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Toward a Systematic Approach to the Design and Evaluation of Automated Mobility-on-Demand Systems: A Case Study in Singapore

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Road Vehicle Automation

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The objective of this work is to provide analytical guidelines and financial justification for the design of shared-vehicle mobility-on-demand systems. Specifically, we consider the fundamental issue of determining the appropriate number of vehicles to field in the fleet, and estimate the financial benefits of several models of car sharing. As a case study, we consider replacing all modes of personal transportation in a city such as Singapore with a fleet of shared automated vehicles, able to drive themselves, e.g., to move to a customer’s location. Using actual transportation data, our analysis suggests a shared-vehicle mobility solution can meet the personal mobility needs of the entire population with a fleet whose size is approximately 1/3 of the total number of passenger vehicles currently in operation.

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Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation, under the Future Urban Mobility SMART IRG program. The authors are grateful to the Land Transport Authority of Singapore for providing access to the HITS data.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 32-D712, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Kevin Spieser & Kyle Treleaven

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 32-D724, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Emilio Frazzoli

  3. Stanford University, Room 261, 496 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

    Rick Zhang & Marco Pavone

  4. Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 1 CREATE Way, #10-01 CREATE Tower, Singapore, 138602, Singapore

    Daniel Morton

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    Gereon Meyer

  2. Center for Automotive Research, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Sven Beiker

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Spieser, K., Treleaven, K., Zhang, R., Frazzoli, E., Morton, D., Pavone, M. (2014). Toward a Systematic Approach to the Design and Evaluation of Automated Mobility-on-Demand Systems: A Case Study in Singapore. In: Meyer, G., Beiker, S. (eds) Road Vehicle Automation. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05990-7_20

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