Agent-based Simulation Testbed for On-demand Mobility Services

New markets for personalized and efficient transport are creating a need for on-demand mobility services. To rigorously analyse new control mechanisms for these services, we introduce an open-source agent-based simulation testbed that allows users to eva- luate the performance of multi-agent, on-demand transport schemes. In particular, our testbed provides a framework to compare both centralized and decentralized, static and dynamic passenger allocation and vehicle routing mechanisms under various con- ditions; including varying vehicle fleets, road network topologies and passenger demands. Our testbed supports all stages of the experimental process; from the implementation of control mechanisms and the definition of experiment scenarios, through to simu- lation execution, analysis, and interpretation of results. Ultimately, the testbed accelerates the development of control mechanisms for emerging on-demand mobility services and facilitates their comparison using well-defined benchmarks