Research Article

The Impact of Fleet Coordination on Taxi Operations

Algorithm 1

Taxi Trip Network Calibration.
input Tolerance , maximum iterations , , , sampling time , set of taxi trips
initialize links , discrete times , iteration
initialize a data structure that sorts trips according to how often they were randomly selected and records at selection time for each trip
initialize a data structure that sorts trips according to
while and do
with probability: select a trip randomly from the
 set of least randomly selected trips in , otherwise
 select the trip with highest from
compute path time using , origin
 and destination of ; if a random trip was selected
 update
compute with recorded duration of
compute
scale all in path with for
compute path time using updated , origin
 and destination of to update
compute the cost using and the last randomly
 selected trips
end while
output