Research Article

An Efficient Solving Method to Vehicle and Passenger Matching Problem for Sharing Autonomous Vehicle System

Table 1

Summary of notations.

Parameters and sets

Set of nodes
Set of links
Set of AVs
Set of passengers
Set of minimum travel time between any two nodes
The earliest pick-up time
The latest pick-up time
The earliest drop-off time
The latest drop-off time
Pick-up location of request
Drop-off location of request
Vehicle capacity

Variables

Binary variable, 1 if passenger and are served by the same vehicle
The moment when passenger is picked from the original node
The moment when passenger is delivered at the destination