Robo-Taxi service fleet sizing: assessing the impact of user trust and willingness-to-use

The first commercial fleets of Robo-Taxis will be on the road soon. Today important efforts are made to anticipate future Robo-Taxi services. Fleet size is one of the key parameters considered in the planning phase of service design and configuration. Based on multi-agent approaches, the fleet size can be explored using dynamic demand response simulations. Time and cost are the most common variables considered in such simulation approaches. However, personal taste variation can affect the demand and consequently the required fleet size. In this paper, we explore the impact of user trust and willingness-to-use on the Robo-Taxi fleet size. This research is based upon simulating the transportation system of the Rouen-Normandie metropolitan area in France using MATSim, a multi-agent activity-based simulator. A local survey is made in order to explore the variation of user trust and their willingness-to-use future Robo-Taxis according to the sociodemographic attributes. Integrating survey data in the model shows the significant importance of traveler trust and willingness-to-use varying the Robo-Taxi use and the required fleet size.

     

一种基于蚁群算法的聚类组合方法

蚂蚁等群居类昆虫被看作能解决复杂问题的分布式系统,研究者从它们的协作性能以及自组织、信息素通信、任务划分等机理中获得灵感,已在组合优化、通信网络、机器人等许多应用领域找到解决问题的新方法。聚类作为一种无监督的学习,能根据数据间的相似程度自动地进行分类。基于蚁群算法的聚类方法已经在当前数据挖掘研究中得到应用。本文提出的基于蚁群算法的聚类组合新方法,模仿多蚁群的协作性能,将运动速度类型各异的多个蚁群,独立而并行地进行聚类分析,然后组合其聚类结果为超图,再用蚁群算法对超图进行2次划分。实验结果表明,该方法能自动决定聚类的数目,聚类组合方法能明显改善聚类质量。     

基于自适应谐振理论的Web文档聚类集成方法

提出了基于自适应谐振理论的Web文档聚类集成方法．该方法先用蚁群算法对Web文档进行聚类,再用ART神经网络对聚类结果集成．实验结果表明,集成后的聚类综合质量高于集成前的聚类综合质量．