Learning Drivers’ Utility Functions in a Coordinated Freight Routing System Based on Drivers’ Actions

This project explores the probability of developing a centrally coordinated routing system for trucks. Such a system works in a way that prioritizes the maximizing of the system instead of lowering the individual cost, and balances the latter to be close or less than the user equilibrium cost with the use of monetary incentives. To study the potential of having such a system, it is vital to take into account what truck drivers actually do. Therefore, the project develops a method for estimating the utility functions of truck drivers based on their response to a centrally coordinated routing system that they are participating. Additionally, the project evaluates the impact of assumed wrong utility functions that could be viewed as non-compliance on the system optimum cost. To provide a context, centrally coordinated routing system for trucks will provide routing instructions based on optimizing the system rather than minimizing the individual cost. This distinction will allow for the efficient balancing of the individual cost. To reach the above-mentioned goals (developing a method and evaluating the impact), the project uses: (1) synthetic data and available testbed for a good control over the ongoing traffics, and (2) sensitivity analysis for testing the accuracy impact.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/learning-drivers-utility-functions-coordinated-freight-routing-system-based-drivers-actions

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $111529
• Contract Numbers:

  Caltrans 65A0686 Task Order 081

  DOT 69A3552348319

  DOT 69A3552344814

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  California Department of Transportation

  1227 O Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95843
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  University Park Campus
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of Southern California, Los Angeles

  University Park Campus
  Los Angeles, CA  United States  90089
• Principal Investigators:

  Ioannou, Petros

• Start Date: 20230615
• Expected Completion Date: 20240831
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accuracy; Functional analysis; Routing; Truck drivers; Utility theory
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01885061
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: Caltrans 65A0686 Task Order 081, DOT 69A3552348319, DOT 69A3552344814
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 17 2023 8:02AM