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Mixed Integer Linear Programming Formulation for the Taxi Sharing Problem
- 1. 1 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Mixed Integer Linear Programming Formulation for the Taxi Sharing Problem Houssem E. Ben-Smida, Saoussen Krichen, Francisco Chicano, Enrique Alba
- 2. 2 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Motivation • One of the goals of Smart Cities is to increase efficiency in the use of resources • Translated to Smart Mobility, efficiency generate benefits both economically and ecologically
- 3. 3 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Motivation • Shared trips is a way to improve mobility resources • Several people share the transport (public or private vehicle) • Some proposals are: • Lanes for cars with two or more passengers • Campaigns to share the car to/from the workplace • Applications to find travelign companions • BlaBlaCar or Carma • What about taxis? • They rarely travel full • Impact in pollution and economy of users • Solution: Taxi-sharing
- 4. 4 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Taxi-sharing Complete graph (edges omitted for clarity) cij monetary cost of traveling between two locations Maximum capacity: k Minimum fare: b Mixed Integer Linear Programming Formulation In the following we will present the mathematical formulation of the p Let P = {p1, p2, ..., pn} be a set of n passengers that are in the same d0. Let us denote with di the location where passenger pi wants to go assume that the maximum capacity of the available taxis is k (usually 4 and let us denote with b the minimum fare to pay in each trip regard distance traveled. The cost to travel from point di to dj will be given matrix element cij of a cost matrix. A solution to the problem is a set of m sequences of locations {s1, s2, such that every destination di with i ≥ 1 appears exactly in one sequen no more than one), and the origin d0 is the first location in all the se Each sequence of locations represents a taxi ride, where the destination sequence are visited in the order they appear. The length of each seq will be k + 1 at most, since k is the maximum capacity of the taxis and first location in all the sequences. The total cost of a solution is given b cost({s1, s2, . . . , sm}) = m l=1 ⎛ ⎝b + (di,dj )∈sl cij ⎞ ⎠ , where we use (di, dj) ∈ sl to iterate over all the pairs of destinations AuthorProof Origin Destinations Definition Link to CVRP
- 5. 5 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Taxi-sharing: link to CVRP Definition Link to CVRP • The problem has some commonalities with Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem… • … and also some differences: • Vehicles return to the depot • There is no “minimum fare” • Destinations are all different Depot (origin) Vehicles (taxis) Customers (destinations) Maximum capacity: k
- 6. 6 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Taxi-sharing: link to CVRP Complete graph (edges omitted for clarity) cij monetary cost of traveling between two locations Maximum capacity: k Minimum fare: b Mixed Integer Linear Programming Formulation In the following we will present the mathematical formulation of the p Let P = {p1, p2, ..., pn} be a set of n passengers that are in the same d0. Let us denote with di the location where passenger pi wants to go assume that the maximum capacity of the available taxis is k (usually 4 and let us denote with b the minimum fare to pay in each trip regard distance traveled. The cost to travel from point di to dj will be given matrix element cij of a cost matrix. A solution to the problem is a set of m sequences of locations {s1, s2, such that every destination di with i ≥ 1 appears exactly in one sequen no more than one), and the origin d0 is the first location in all the se Each sequence of locations represents a taxi ride, where the destination sequence are visited in the order they appear. The length of each seq will be k + 1 at most, since k is the maximum capacity of the taxis and first location in all the sequences. The total cost of a solution is given b cost({s1, s2, . . . , sm}) = m l=1 ⎛ ⎝b + (di,dj )∈sl cij ⎞ ⎠ , where we use (di, dj) ∈ sl to iterate over all the pairs of destinations AuthorProof • We can manage the differences Add the minimum fare to the edges leaving the origin 0 0 0 Definition Link to CVRP
- 7. 7 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Mixed Integer Linear Programming • Based on Kulkarni and Bhave’s formulation afor CVRP • There is an error in that formulation that does not affect taxi-sharing Mixed Integer Linear Programming Formu yi − yj + nxij ≤ n − 1 for 1 ≤ i ̸= j ≤ n, ui − uj + kxij ≤ k − 1 for 1 ≤ i ̸= j ≤ n, xij = 0 or 1 for 0 ≤ i ̸= j ≤ n, ui, yi ∈ R for 1 ≤ i ≤ n. Constraints (3) and (4) ensure that each location is visited onl straint (5) is designed to ensure that no subtours are formed and, th that all routes must visit the origin. The yi variables are introdu AuthorProof if we find a way to deal with these three differences. der to model the fact that taxis do not need to go back to the depot, o the cost of return equals zero. This way, although the solutions will osed of closed paths, there is no cost related to the final segment (that k to the origin). The minimum fare can be added to the cost of the first of any path. In particular, it can be added to all the edges that leave n. Finally, all the passenger destinations can be considered as different. f them are the same in a particular instance of the problem, we add a edge between them. With these considerations, we can adapt the MILP on of CVRP to Taxi Sharing. ssume c0i is the cost from the origin to the location plus the minimum the customers have to pay to the taxi. The values ci0 will be 0 as d above. The Mixed Integer Linear Program formulation of the Taxi problem is: min n i=0 n j=0 cijxij, (2) o: n i=0 xij = 1 for 1 ≤ j ≤ n, (3) n j=0 xij = 1 for 1 ≤ i ≤ n, (4) ment of any path. In particular, it can be added to all the edges that leave origin. Finally, all the passenger destinations can be considered as different ome of them are the same in a particular instance of the problem, we add a o cost edge between them. With these considerations, we can adapt the MILP mulation of CVRP to Taxi Sharing. We assume c0i is the cost from the origin to the location plus the minimum e that the customers have to pay to the taxi. The values ci0 will be 0 a plained above. The Mixed Integer Linear Program formulation of the Tax aring problem is: min n i=0 n j=0 cijxij, (2 bject to: n i=0 xij = 1 for 1 ≤ j ≤ n, (3 n j=0 xij = 1 for 1 ≤ i ≤ n, (4 Visit each node only once Avoid subtours Taxi capacity constraint Domains of variables
- 8. 8 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Experiments Instances, algorithms and machines Results • Set of 24 real-like instances used by Massobrio et al. (2014) • Generated with Taxi Query Generator based on trajectories of more than 10,000 taxis in Beijing, China • Sizes: from 9 to 69 passengers • IBM CPLEX 12.6.2 for Windows for solving the MILP formulation • Intel Core i5-4210U at 1.7GHz, 8 GB and Windows 10 • Parallel micro evolutionary algorithm with 24 subpopulations, 15 solutions per subpopulation, and greedy initialization strategy • Cluster with Dell Power Edge servers, Quad-core Xeon E5430 at 2.66 GHz, 8 GB Instances Algorithms and machines Best conf.
- 9. 9 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Experiments: Results (i) Small instances difference between the cost obtained with pµEA and the MILP solver is large enough to justify the MILP approach. There is an important benefit. In some cases, the MILP solver reaches almost half of the cost of the pµEA solution Table 1. Comparison between the MILP solver and pµEA with 24 subpopulations and greedy initialization strategy for the small instances of the Taxi Sharing Problem. For pµEA, the average cost and standard deviation of 20 independent runs is reported. Passengers 9 12 17 21 23 24 pµEA Cost 125.5 ± 0.0 168.8 ± 0.0 191.2 ± 0.5 215.6 ± 0.1 298.4 ± 0.3 252.2 ± 2.4 Time (s) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 2.1 MILP Cost 86.5 126.8 124.1 137.5 162.4 157.2 Time (s) 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 • Advantages of MILP in quality • Time is short in both cases (recall that pµEA runs in a faster machine) Instances, algorithms and machines Results
- 10. 10 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Experiments: Results (ii) Medium instances Mixed Integer Linear Programming Formulation 7 Table 2. Comparison between the MILP solver and pµEA with 24 subpopulations and greedy initialization strategy for the medium instances of the Taxi Sharing Problem. For pµEA, the average cost and standard deviation of 20 independent runs is reported. Passengers 26 27 33 33 37 39 pµEA Cost 344.5 ± 5.6 323.1 ± 3.4 801.2 ± 4.2 357.4 ± 3.4 443.7 ± 3.8 367.0 ± 5.0 Time (s) 5.6 3.6 4.2 3.4 3.8 6.1 MILP Cost 245.0 212.3 486.2 233.7 301.5 274.2 Time (s) 1.0 1.2 2.1 3.2 5.1 6.1 Table 3. Comparison between the MILP solver and pµEA with 24 subpopulations and greedy initialization strategy for the large instances of the Taxi Sharing Problem. For pµEA, the average cost and standard deviation of 20 independent runs is reported. Passengers 42 44 44 46 53 54 pµEA Cost 429.9 ± 7.1 319.8 ± 7.5 425.0 ± 4.3 367.7 ± 3.2 446.3 ± 2.6 562.1 ± 4.3 Time (s) 3.7 7.5 4.3 3.3 4.8 4.3 MILP Cost 312.7 189.0 287.6 244.5 301.9 376.1 Time (s) 7.2 7.8 12.1 15.3 19.0 45.0 • Advantages of MILP in quality • MILP is faster than pµEA Instances, algorithms and machines Results
- 11. 11 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Experiments: Results (iii) Large instances • Advantages of MILP in quality • pµEA is faster than MILP • MILP is still reasonable in time if we are happy to wait less than 1 minute pµEA Cost 344.5 ± 5.6 323.1 ± 3.4 801.2 ± 4.2 357.4 ± 3.4 443.7 ± 3.8 367.0 ± 5.0 Time (s) 5.6 3.6 4.2 3.4 3.8 6.1 MILP Cost 245.0 212.3 486.2 233.7 301.5 274.2 Time (s) 1.0 1.2 2.1 3.2 5.1 6.1 Table 3. Comparison between the MILP solver and pµEA with 24 subpopulations and greedy initialization strategy for the large instances of the Taxi Sharing Problem. For pµEA, the average cost and standard deviation of 20 independent runs is reported. Passengers 42 44 44 46 53 54 pµEA Cost 429.9 ± 7.1 319.8 ± 7.5 425.0 ± 4.3 367.7 ± 3.2 446.3 ± 2.6 562.1 ± 4.3 Time (s) 3.7 7.5 4.3 3.3 4.8 4.3 MILP Cost 312.7 189.0 287.6 244.5 301.9 376.1 Time (s) 7.2 7.8 12.1 15.3 19.0 45.0 Table 4. Comparison between the MILP solver and pµEA with 24 subpopulations and greedy initialization strategy for the very large instances of the Taxi Sharing Problem. For pµEA, the average cost and standard deviation of 20 independent runs is reported. Passengers 57 57 59 62 66 69 pµEA Cost 637.7 ± 3.6 524.8 ± 4.5 498.4 ± 3.5 744.9 ± 6.1 560.6 ± 4.7 1424.6 ± 6.1 Time (s) 3.6 7.7 3.5 8.0 4.7 6.1 MILP Cost 462.4 327.5 332.0 503.2 398.4 N/A Time (s) 4927.0 6180.0 7353.0 69487.0 > 64000 > 64000 Instances, algorithms and machines Results
- 12. 12 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Experiments: Results (& iiiv) Very large instances • Advantages of MILP in quality • MILP is useless in this case, pµEA provides a suboptimal answer much faster • Not a surprise, we are solving an NP-hard problem to optimality Time (s) 3.7 7.5 4.3 3.3 4.8 4.3 MILP Cost 312.7 189.0 287.6 244.5 301.9 376.1 Time (s) 7.2 7.8 12.1 15.3 19.0 45.0 Table 4. Comparison between the MILP solver and pµEA with 24 subpopulations and greedy initialization strategy for the very large instances of the Taxi Sharing Problem. For pµEA, the average cost and standard deviation of 20 independent runs is reported. Passengers 57 57 59 62 66 69 pµEA Cost 637.7 ± 3.6 524.8 ± 4.5 498.4 ± 3.5 744.9 ± 6.1 560.6 ± 4.7 1424.6 ± 6.1 Time (s) 3.6 7.7 3.5 8.0 4.7 6.1 MILP Cost 462.4 327.5 332.0 503.2 398.4 N/A Time (s) 4927.0 6180.0 7353.0 69487.0 > 64000 > 64000 (see solution with n = 23 in Table 1). This observation is generalized, and it does not seem to change with the number of passengers of the instances. Regarding the execution time of the MILP solver and pµEA, we have to be careful with the conclusions, since both algorithms are run in different machines, with different cores. Although an accurate comparison is not possible here, we can take some conclusions just seeing the order of magnitude of the runtime. As we could expect both approaches require, in general, more time as the Instances, algorithms and machines Results
- 13. 13 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Motivation Taxi-sharing MILP Formulation Experiments Conclusions & Future Work Conclusions and Future Work Conclusions & Future Work • Solving the MILP formulation we get optimal results in short time for instances with up to 45 passengers (large instances) • More than 45 passengers requires a different approach to have an answer in a few seconds • pµEA works well in these very large instances Conclusions • Combine exact and heuristic methods: matheuristics • Extend the formulation to include more realistic scenarios: real-time traffic, passengers’ time constraints, etc. Future Work
- 14. 14 / 14Smart-CT 2016, Málaga, Spain, 15-17 July, 2016 Acknowledgements Mixed Integer Linear Programming Formulation for the Taxi Sharing Problem Thanks to Renzo Massobrio, Gabriel Fagúndez and Sergio Nesmachnow