FDA-VeD: A Future-Demand-Aware Vehicle Dispatching Service

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a Future-Demand-Aware Vehicle Dispatching Service (FDA-VeD) by considering the relocation of idle vehicles based on the predicted future demands in order to achieve high passenger serving ratio. We evaluate the performance of our system on New York taxi dataset. We demonstrate that our approach achieves a significantly higher serving ratio with a low operating cost increase in comparison with existing methods.