Augmenting decisions of taxi drivers through reinforcement learning for improving revenues

• Main Authors: VERMA, Tanvi, VARAKANTHAM, Pradeep, KRAUS, Sarit, LAU, Hoong Chuin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Sales; Scheduling; Taxicabs; Urban transportation; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Computer Sciences; Transportation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3867; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4869/viewcontent/15746_68951_1_PB.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Taxis (which include cars working with car aggregation systems such as Uber, Grab, Lyft etc.) have become a critical component in the urban transportation. While most research and applications in the context of taxis have focused on improving performance from a customer perspective, in this paper,we...