Shared Autonomous Vehicle Mobility for a Transportation Underserved City

<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">This paper proposes the use of an on-demand, ride hailed and ride-Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) service as a feasible solution to serve mobility needs small city where fixed route, circulator type public transportation may be too expensive operate. The presented work builds upon our earlier that modeled Marysville, Ohio example such city, with realistic traffic behavior, trip requests. A simple SAV dispatcher is implemented model behavior proposed on-demand service. goal optimally distribute SAVs along network allocate passengers shared rides. pickup drop-off locations are strategically placed provide from affordable housing, which also transit deserts, corresponding jobs other opportunities. study carried out by varying behaviors driving system cautious aggressive size fleet analyzing their performance. It found AV results in optimal number after increasing does not improve overall mobility. For Marysville network, 9 mile 8 this happens at mark deployed SAVs. show introduction scheme can access services hundreds people sized city.</div></div>