Urban transit systems usually operate according to fixed-route and fixed-schedule schemes by employing fixed-capacity vehicles, despite the mobility demand is unevenly spread out in both space and time. Modular buses ...
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Urban transit systems usually operate according to fixed-route and fixed-schedule schemes by employing fixed-capacity vehicles, despite the mobility demand is unevenly spread out in both space and time. Modular buses are an emerging technology in which modules of relatively small capacity can be dynamically docked together to form greater capacity buses and can, therefore, make the transit system capable of adapting the capacity to the actual mobility demand. A module can be shifted from one line to another at pre-defined intersections and can be relocated when empty, if beneficial. We call these two operations sharing and rebalancing, respectively. Given a transit network comprising multiple bus lines and a mobility demand, we present an integerlinear program to determine an optimal assignment of modules to lines, so that the mobility demand is met with a minimum total number of modules. Computational experiments show that, by exploiting the flexibility of modular buses, the total capacity deployed can be reduced by 49% with respect to a conventional transit system, whereas the average occupancy ratio increases from 41.22% to 72.85%.
Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) intend to bridge the gap between dedicated and flexible manufacturing systems. If the literature is mainly focused on the design step and tactical planning of such systems, f...
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Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) intend to bridge the gap between dedicated and flexible manufacturing systems. If the literature is mainly focused on the design step and tactical planning of such systems, few research projects have addressed scheduling at the operational level. While setup times may occur in flexible manufacturing systems, reconfiguration times considered in RMS may affect several resources at once, and hence require specific modelling and solving approaches to be considered. This paper first formalises the problem at hand through integer linear programming. An iterative search method is then provided to obtain solutions to larger-scale instances. Results obtained on generated instances show that managing even few possible configurations can yield significant improvements in solutions' quality. Meanwhile, the extended search space implied by the increase in available configurations hinders the convergence to a good solution in a reasonable computation time, which suggests further investigations.
The shared automated mobility-on-demand system can offer convenient 'point-to-point' services for travelers. However, most previous studies have not combined pricing strategies with dispatching strategies to i...
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The shared automated mobility-on-demand system can offer convenient 'point-to-point' services for travelers. However, most previous studies have not combined pricing strategies with dispatching strategies to investigate their impact on system operation results. This paper proposes two demand response strategies for the shared automated mobility-on-demand system. From the perspective of time and space, eight ridesharing pricing strategies are proposed. The preliminary vehicle matching and routing are obtained through the integer linear programming considering system profit and service level, and the vehicle status is updated by four dispatching strategies that consider whether the matching scheme and route are updated over time. The results show that the factors taken into account in the ridesharing pricing strategy are restricted by the system to maximize profit, and the most flexible dispatching strategy is not the most profitable. These detailed analyses can provide a basis for formulating an effective operation mode of the automated mobility-on-demand system.
Convergecast is the process of gathering all sensor data at the base station. Convergecast in a Sensor-Cloud is achieved by creating multiple data-gathering trees over collaborating wireless sensor networks and collec...
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Convergecast is the process of gathering all sensor data at the base station. Convergecast in a Sensor-Cloud is achieved by creating multiple data-gathering trees over collaborating wireless sensor networks and collecting sensor data via those trees. Designing a schedule for convergecast can be one-shot (only for one round of data collection) or pipelined (data collected at regular intervals repeatedly). We give a pipelined algorithm for convergecast, assuming a raw data model (no aggregation). Firstly, we design a slot allocation algorithm considering only the adjacency constraints and traversing the trees in BFS (breadth first search) order. Our schedule requires at most M + H + 1 time slots for the first round of data collection and at most M + 1 slots in subsequent rounds, where M is the lower bound to complete one round of convergecast and H is the maximum height of the data gathering trees. Our schedule does not require any node to store more than two packets. In the next step, we consider interference among simultaneous transmissions and allocate multiple frequency channels to ensure interference below a certain threshold. The problem of minimizing the frequency channels while maintaining SINR above the desired value is reduced to a semidefinite programming relaxation. In our simulation, the time for the first round of convergecast is much lower than M + H + 1 (closer to M + 1), and the channel allocation algorithm requires either optimal or just one more than the optimal number of channels.
To address the issue that a single charge of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) do not satisfy task requirements, this paper proposes a solution involving the deployment of charging stations in the mission area. An energ...
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To address the issue that a single charge of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) do not satisfy task requirements, this paper proposes a solution involving the deployment of charging stations in the mission area. An energy-efficient path planning method is designed for UAVs with charging stations, which simultaneously determines the deployment locations and quantities of charging stations. The method formulates the energy optimization path planning problem of UAVs as an integer linear programming and an algorithm based on greedy strategy is designed for solving the model. A numerical example including simulations across various scenarios demonstrate that the proposed method can search a more energy-efficient paths compared to single-agent multi-sortie schemes with a greedy strategy. This research contributes to the development of intelligent and autonomous UAV systems for power line inspection, enhancing grid reliability and safety.
The emergence of dockless shared e-scooters as a new form of shared micromobility offers a viable solution to specific urban transportation problems, including the first-mile-last-mile issue, parking constraints, and ...
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The emergence of dockless shared e-scooters as a new form of shared micromobility offers a viable solution to specific urban transportation problems, including the first-mile-last-mile issue, parking constraints, and environmental emissions. However, this sharing service faces several challenges in daily operation, particularly related to demand volatility, battery recharging, maintenance, and regulations, owing to their trip and physical characteristics. Therefore, this study proposed a new data-driven rebalancing framework for dockless shared e-scooters that incorporates demand and variance prediction, and Monte Carlo sampling to simulate the expected demand. Thus, demand uncertainty and the collection of low-battery and broken e-scooters were included in the rebalancing formulation to minimize user dissatisfaction and operating costs. Rebalancing optimization is an NP-hard problem;in this study, the small-size problem was solved using the integer linear programming (ILP) solver GNU linearprogramming Kit, and the large-size problem was solved using the proposed hybrid ant colony optimization-ILP algorithm (ACO-ILP). This framework was evaluated on a real-world dataset from Minneapolis, Minnesota, which demonstrated that the demand and variance prediction efficiently allocated the uncertainty while reducing the overall uncertainty, leading to shorter driving distances and lower rebalancing costs relative to baseline cases.
BackgroundThe construction of a pangenome graph is a fundamental task in pangenomics. A natural theoretical question is how to formalize the computational problem of building an optimal pangenome graph, making explici...
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BackgroundThe construction of a pangenome graph is a fundamental task in pangenomics. A natural theoretical question is how to formalize the computational problem of building an optimal pangenome graph, making explicit the underlying optimization criterion and the set of feasible solutions. Current approaches build a pangenome graph with some heuristics, without assuming some explicit optimization criteria. Thus it is unclear how a specific optimization criterion affects the graph topology and downstream analysis, like read mapping and variant *** this paper, by leveraging the notion of maximal block in a Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA), we reframe the pangenome graph construction problem as an exact cover problem on blocks called Minimum Weighted Block Cover (MWBC). Then we propose an integer linear programming (ILP) formulation for the MWBC problem that allows us to study the most natural objective functions for building a graph. We provide an implementation of the ILP approach for solving the MWBC and we evaluate it on SARS-CoV-2 complete genomes, showing how different objective functions lead to pangenome graphs that have different properties, hinting that the specific downstream task can drive the graph construction *** show that a customized construction of a pangenome graph based on selecting objective functions has a direct impact on the resulting graphs. In particular, our formalization of the MWBC problem, based on finding an optimal subset of blocks covering an MSA, paves the way to novel practical approaches to graph representations of an MSA where the user can guide the construction.
Airport access mode disruptions, such as a subway shutdown, threaten the whole passenger door-to-door journey. When such a disruptive event occurs, knowledge of passengers' delays would help the airport operation ...
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Airport access mode disruptions, such as a subway shutdown, threaten the whole passenger door-to-door journey. When such a disruptive event occurs, knowledge of passengers' delays would help the airport operation centre to decide if a departure flight should be delayed. This paper proposes a tactical flight rescheduling at an airport to minimise the number of stranded passengers while considering operational constraints. An integer linear programming formulation of the problem is presented. Constraints such as terminal capacities, maximal runway throughput, minimum turnaround time or minimum transfer time for connecting passengers are considered. An exact and heuristic resolution is proposed and compared to a study case around Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. The new schedule satisfies the operational constraints and reduces up to 60% of the number of stranded passengers with moderate deviation from the initial planning.
Rail operators worldwide are seeing an increase in demand for services, driven by expanding global trade and the use of export commodities. Punctual service in a train stopped on the railroad is extremely important si...
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Rail operators worldwide are seeing an increase in demand for services, driven by expanding global trade and the use of export commodities. Punctual service in a train stopped on the railroad is extremely important since the delay in service significantly impacts performance, asset utilization, and railroad productivity. The present work addresses the development and the solution of an optimization model for locating railway service teams that serve locomotives that need emergency maintenance on a Brazilian railway. Additionally, a hypercube model was solved to estimate several performance measures that assist in decision-making. From the result analysis of different scenarios, it was found that the optimized maintenance teams' location provides superior results to the current ones considering the same resources. Also, it was possible to increase the coverage with double attendance in the studied system, monitoring different indicators such as attendance teams' average system travel time and workload.
Tower crane layout planning (TCLP) is key to ensure the safety and productivity of construction projects. Previous studies on TCLP mainly focused on the typical in situ construction method, however, overlooking modula...
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Tower crane layout planning (TCLP) is key to ensure the safety and productivity of construction projects. Previous studies on TCLP mainly focused on the typical in situ construction method, however, overlooking modular integrated construction (MiC). This study aims to develop an integrated planning approach for optimizing the locations of tower cranes and trucks for MiC across the entire construction site. This approach consists of four objective components. First, identifying potential locations for cranes and trucks by adopting a gridding method and an intersection examination algorithm. Second, estimating the crane operation duration. Third, optimizing the crane and truck locations by developing an integer linear programming (ILP) model while considering various constraints, such as the demand fulfillment, the crane's lifting capacity, and the multiple truck parking areas. Lastly, optimizing the distance between cranes to avoid crane blocking on site. The proposed approach is validated via three high-rise residential MiC projects. The results achieve 19.4%-37.9% reductions in cranes' operation durations, as well as carbon emissions from the original plan. Compared with another existing TCLP method made from limited predefined layout plans, a 29.4% improvement is observed. Moreover, three aspects to extend the application of the approach are discussed: (1) the multiple tower crane layout scenario, (2) the impact of the number of truck points, and (3) the trade-offs between computing effectiveness and performance. The approach realizes the objective of TCLP decision-making for multi-crane multitruck MiC throughout the whole construction site. Construction practitioners can use this approach for decision-making which helps enhance the effectiveness of their tower crane layout designs.
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