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Towards a Testbed for Dynamic Vehicle Routing Algorithms

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Since modern transport services are becoming more flexible, demand-responsive, and energy/cost efficient, there is a growing demand for large-scale microscopic simulation platforms in order to test sophisticated routing algorithms. Such platforms have to simulate in detail, not only the dynamically changing demand and supply of the relevant service, but also traffic flow and other relevant transport services. This paper presents the DVRP extension to the open-source MATSim simulator. The extension is designed to be highly general and customizable to simulate a wide range of dynamic rich vehicle routing problems. The extension allows plugging in of various algorithms that are responsible for continuous re-optimisation of routes in response to changes in the system. The DVRP extension has been used in many research and commercial projects dealing with simulation of electric and autonomous taxis, demand-responsive transport, personal rapid transport, free-floating car sharing and parking search.

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  1. Transport Systems and Transport Telematics, Technische Universität Berlin, SG12, Salzufer 17–19, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Michal Maciejewski, Joschka Bischoff & Kai Nagel

  2. Division of Transport Systems, Poznan University of Technology, Piotrowo 3, 60-965, Poznan, Poland

    Michal Maciejewski

  3. IVT, ETH Zürich, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland

    Sebastian Hörl

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  3. University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

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  5. Lille University of Science and Technology, Lille, France

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  6. Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

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Maciejewski, M., Bischoff, J., Hörl, S., Nagel, K. (2017). Towards a Testbed for Dynamic Vehicle Routing Algorithms. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Cyber-Physical Multi-Agent Systems. PAAMS 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 722. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60285-1_6

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