A chance-constrained dial-a-ride problem with utility-maximising demand and multiple pricing structures

Xiaotong Dong, Joseph Y.J. Chow, S. Travis Waller and David Rey

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2022, vol. 158, issue C

Abstract: The classic Dial-A-Ride Problem (DARP) aims at designing the minimum-cost routing that accommodates a set of user requests under constraints at an operations planning level, where users’ preferences and revenue management are often overlooked. In this paper, we present a mechanism for accepting/rejecting user requests in a Demand Responsive Transportation (DRT) context based on the representative utilities of alternative transportation modes. We consider utility-maximising users and propose a mixed-integer programming formulation for a Chance Constrained DARP (CC-DARP), that captures users’ preferences via a Logit model. We further introduce class-based user groups and consider various pricing structures for DRT services. A customised local search based heuristic and a matheuristic are developed to solve the proposed CC-DARP. We report numerical results for both DARP benchmarking instances and a realistic case study based on New York City yellow taxi trip data. Computational experiments performed on 105 benchmarking instances with up to 96 nodes yield average profit gaps of 2.59% and 0.17% using the proposed local search heuristic and matheuristic, respectively. The results obtained on the realistic case study reveal that a zonal fare structure is the best strategy in terms of optimising revenue and ridership. The proposed CC-DARP formulation provides a new decision-support tool to inform on revenue and fleet management for DRT systems on a strategic planning level.

Keywords: Dial-a-ride problem; Demand-responsive transportation; Chance constraint; Mixed-integer programming; Local search; Matheuristic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2021.102601

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