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.

Language

  • English

Project

  • Status: Completed
  • 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: 20240827
  • USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

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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