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Centralized fleet management system for cybernetic transportation

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Anjali Awasthi,

Jean-Marie ProthAuthors Info & Claims

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, Volume 38, Issue 4

Pages 3710 - 3717

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2010.09.029

Published: 01 April 2011 Publication History

Abstract

In this article, we present a centralized fleet management system (CFMS) for cybernetic vehicles called cybercars. Cybercars are automatically guided vehicles for passenger transport on dedicated networks like amusement parks, shopping centres etc. The users make reservations for the vehicles through phone, internet, kiosk etc and the CFMS schedules the cybercars to pick the users at their respective stations at desired time intervals. The CFMS has centralized control of the routing network and performs pooling of customer requests, scheduling and routing of cybercars to customers, empty cybercars to new services or parking stations and those running below their threshold battery levels to recharging stations. The challenges before CFMS are to assure conflict-free routing, accommodate immediate requests from customers, dynamic updation of vehicle paths and minimize congestion on the whole network. We present the approaches used by CFMS to ensure these functionalities and demonstrate a numerical illustration on a test network.

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Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal Volume 38, Issue 4

April, 2011

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Jaoua ABen Ammar MAwasthi A(2019)A Decision Support System for On-Demand Goods Delivery Using Shared Autonomous Electric VehiclesInternational Journal of Decision Support System Technology10.4018/IJDSST.201904010511:2(72-88)Online publication date: 1-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/IJDSST.2019040105
da Silva AOchi L(2016)An efficient hybrid algorithm for the Traveling Car Renter ProblemExpert Systems with Applications: An International Journal10.1016/j.eswa.2016.07.03864:C(132-140)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.eswa.2016.07.038
Zeimpekis VMinis IGiaglis GMamassis K(2013)Real-Time Fleet Management and Rerouting in City LogisticsInternational Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems10.4018/ijoris.20131001014:4(1-21)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/ijoris.2013100101

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