Beyond Cargo Hitching: Combined People and Freight Transport Using Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicles

Joris J.A. Kortekaas; Breno A. Beirigo; Frederik Schulte

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43612-3_24

Beyond Cargo Hitching: Combined People and Freight Transport Using Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicles

Joris J.A. Kortekaas, Breno A. Beirigo, Frederik Schulte^*

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Transport Engineering and Logistics

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Abstract

A Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicle (DCAV) is a new class of autonomous vehicle concept using a separable design of lower and upper parts—carriers and modules—to allow more flexible operation. A fleet of DCAVs consists of a set of carriers and a set of compatible modules. Different, possibly crowd-sourced, modules can increase the number of use-cases for DCAVs, possibly leading to disruptive changes in the transport sector. This study investigates the use of DCAV system operating on an Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD) scenario, combining passenger and freight transport flows. The novel problem is denoted as the Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicle Pickup and Delivery Problem (DCAVPDP). We propose a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model aiming to minimize DCAV-fleet size and distance traveled. We compare the performance of a DCAV fleet to the performance of a typical single-purpose fleet (consisting of dedicated passenger and freight vehicles). The numerical study, with 360 instances for each fleet type, considering four people-and-freight demand distribution scenarios, the inclusion of ridesharing, module-and-carrier (de)coupling locations, and different simulation horizon lengths, shows that the proposed modular DCAV system can fulfill a mixed people-and-freight demand using, on average, 18.77% fewer carriers than a regular AMoD system comprised of single-purpose vehicles while increasing on-duty fleet utilization by 4.82%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Logistics
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings 14th International Conference, ICCL 2023
Editors	Joachim R. Daduna, Gernot Liedtke, Xiaoning Shi, Stefan Voß
Publisher	Springer
Pages	381-395
ISBN (Print)	978-3-0314-3611-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43612-3_24
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	Proceedings of the 14th International Conferences on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2023 - Berlin, Germany Duration: 6 Sept 2023 → 8 Sept 2023

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	14239 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	Proceedings of the 14th International Conferences on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Berlin
Period	6/09/23 → 8/09/23

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Keywords

Cargo Hitching
Combined Passenger and Freight Transport
Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicles
Ridesharing
Shared Autonomous Vehicles

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Kortekaas, J. J. A., Beirigo, B. A., & Schulte, F. (2023). Beyond Cargo Hitching: Combined People and Freight Transport Using Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicles. In J. R. Daduna, G. Liedtke, X. Shi, & S. Voß (Eds.), Computational Logistics: Proceedings 14th International Conference, ICCL 2023 (pp. 381-395). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14239 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43612-3_24

Kortekaas, Joris J.A. ; Beirigo, Breno A. ; Schulte, Frederik. / Beyond Cargo Hitching : Combined People and Freight Transport Using Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicles. Computational Logistics: Proceedings 14th International Conference, ICCL 2023. editor / Joachim R. Daduna ; Gernot Liedtke ; Xiaoning Shi ; Stefan Voß. Springer, 2023. pp. 381-395 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Kortekaas, JJA, Beirigo, BA & Schulte, F 2023, Beyond Cargo Hitching: Combined People and Freight Transport Using Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicles. in JR Daduna, G Liedtke, X Shi & S Voß (eds), Computational Logistics: Proceedings 14th International Conference, ICCL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 14239 LNCS, Springer, pp. 381-395, Proceedings of the 14th International Conferences on Computational Logistics, ICCL 2023, Berlin, Germany, 6/09/23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43612-3_24

Beyond Cargo Hitching: Combined People and Freight Transport Using Dynamically Configurable Autonomous Vehicles. / Kortekaas, Joris J.A.; Beirigo, Breno A.; Schulte, Frederik.
Computational Logistics: Proceedings 14th International Conference, ICCL 2023. ed. / Joachim R. Daduna; Gernot Liedtke; Xiaoning Shi; Stefan Voß. Springer, 2023. p. 381-395 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14239 LNCS).

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