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Maximizing the Number of Rides Served for Dial-a-Ride

Authors: Barbara M. Anthony, Ricky Birnbaum, Sara Boyd, Ananya Christman, Christine Chung, Patrick Davis, Jigar Dhimar, and David Yuen

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 75, 19th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2019)


Abstract
We study a variation of offline Dial-a-Ride, where each request has not only a source and destination, but also a revenue that is earned for serving the request. We investigate this problem for the uniform metric space with uniform revenues. While we present a study on a simplified setting of the problem that has limited practical applications, this work provides the theoretical foundation for analyzing the more general forms of the problem. Since revenues are uniform the problem is equivalent to maximizing the number of served requests. We show that the problem is NP-hard and present a 2/3 approximation algorithm. We also show that a natural generalization of this algorithm has an approximation ratio at most 7/9.

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Barbara M. Anthony, Sara Boyd, Ricky Birnbaum, Ananya Christman, Christine Chung, Patrick Davis, Jigar Dhimar, and David Yuen. Maximizing the Number of Rides Served for Dial-a-Ride. In 19th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 75, pp. 11:1-11:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)


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@InProceedings{anthony_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2019.11,
  author =	{Anthony, Barbara M. and Birnbaum, Ricky and Boyd, Sara and Christman, Ananya and Chung, Christine and Davis, Patrick and Dhimar, Jigar and Yuen, David},
  title =	{{Maximizing the Number of Rides Served for Dial-a-Ride}},
  booktitle =	{19th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2019)},
  pages =	{11:1--11:15},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-128-3},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{75},
  editor =	{Cacchiani, Valentina and Marchetti-Spaccamela, Alberto},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2019.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-114237},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2019.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: dial-a-ride, revenue maximization, approximation algorithm, vehicle routing}
}
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