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    • A mathematical approach and review of the modeling of taxi services 

      Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Salanova Grau, Josep Maria (2012)
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      This paper presents a mathematical model for the estimation of the key performance indicators of the taxi markets in urban areas. These key parameters are basically the demand and supply for taxi services, the waiting time ...
    • Agent based modeling for simulating taxi services[: case study in Barcelona] 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2015)
      Conference report
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      Taxi services account for a significant part of the daily trips in most of cities around the world. Due to the fact that most of the taxi markets are regulated by a central authority there is the need for developing tools ...
    • Agent based modeling for simulation of taxi services 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Mitsakis, Evangelos; Stamos, Iraklis (2013-12)
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      This paper presents an agent based model for simulating taxi services in urban areas. The three operation modes (hailing, stand and dispatching) are modeled and tested in the Sioux Falls network. Taxi models presented in ...
    • Agent-based simulation framework for the taxi sector modeling 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Tzenos, Panagiotis; Aifandopoulou, G. (Elsevier, 2018)
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      Taxi services account for a significant part of the daily trips in most cities around the world. These services are regulated by a central authority, which usually monitors the performance of the taxi services provision ...
    • Aggregated modeling of urban taxi services 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Amat Bertran, Carles (2014)
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      Various models have been developed for calculating the variables that characterize the taxi services in urban regions and defining the principal policy measures such as fleet size, fares or available operational modes. ...
    • Criteris de localització de terminals de consolidació en empreses de paqueteria 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2007)
      Minor thesis
      Open Access
      En aquest estudi es planteja la construcció d’un algorisme capaç de decidir el número de hubs òptim i la seva situació exacte per a la distribució de mercaderies. Es defineix el tipus (bàsicament la capacitat) de vehicle ...
    • DRT service requirements and KPIs. Multidepart. DEL01 

      Ayfantopoulou, Georgia; Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Mitsakis, Evangelos; Morfoulaki, Maria; Caicedo Mafla, María Angélica; Juárez Batlle, Cristina; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Dani, Eglantina; Jofre, Martí; Fíguls, Marc (2021-06-30)
      Research report
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      As a part of MultiDEPART project, a series of surveys to key stakeholders have been done and analysed in order to obtain further information on typologies of DRT services and their acceptance. In the first part of the ...
    • Informed versus non-informed taxi drivers: agent-based simulation framework for assessing their performance 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Moreira-Matas, Luis; Saadallah, Amal; Tzenos, Panagiotis; Aifadopoulou, Georgia; Chaniotakis, Emmanouil; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Transportation Research Board (TRB), 2018)
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      Data driven research is becoming a standard in Transport. Recent advances in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning related areas enable the possibility of automatically generating highly-accurate predictive ...
    • Large-scale microscopic simulation of taxi services: Berlin and Barcelona case studies 

      Maciejewski, Michal; Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Bischoff, Joschka; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Springer, 2016-06-01)
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      The paper presents research on large-scale microscopic simulation of taxi services in Berlin and Barcelona based on floating car data collected by local taxi fleets. Firstly, Berlin's and Barcelona's taxi markets are shortly ...
    • Management of on-demand transport services at a urban context: Barcelona case study 

      Cuevas, Victor; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Salanova Grau, Josep Maria (2015)
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      Urban mobility transport mostly focuses on collective transport based on largely exploited models such as metro, trains or buses. The basis of current public transport is a fix network of both infrastructure and services, ...
    • Modeling and comparison of taxi operational modes: case study 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Universidad de Oviedo, 2018)
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      This paper presents an aggregated mathematical model for the estimation of key performance indicators of the taxi market based on the system’s generalized cost function, which is calculated using the expected statistical ...
    • Modeling framework for comparing taxi operational modes: case study in Barcelona 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2018)
      Article
      Open Access
      This paper presents an aggregated mathematical model for the estimation of key performance indicators of the taxi market based on the system’s generalized cost function, which is calculated using the expected statistical ...
    • Modeling framework for supporting taxi policy making 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (International Association for Sharing Knowledge and Sustainability, 2019)
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      Taxi services account for a significant part of the daily trips in most cities around the world. These services are regulated by a central authority, which usually monitors the performance of the taxi services provision ...
    • Modeling of taxi cab fleets in urban environment 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-12-19)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      Taxis are a necessary mean of transport in cities for meeting the mobility needs of its citizens. The impact of the taxi market in the daily life is quite important, concerning both financial (e.g. taxi drivers' salaries) ...
    • Operational cost and user performance analysis of on-demand bus and taxi systems 

      Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Medina Tapia, Marcos; Robusté Antón, Francesc (Informa UK (Taylor & Francis), 2021-03)
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      This paper presents the optimization problem of three different on-demand transit systems operated by vehicles of different sizes. This problem is aimed at minimizing the total cost of the system, which consists of the ...
    • Social optimal shifts and fares for the Barcelona taxi sector 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (2019-04)
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      This paper applies a mathematical model for supporting the decision and policy making in the city of Barcelona, presenting the key performance indicators of the Barcelona taxi market, which are waiting/access time and ...
    • Social optimal shifts and fares of taxi services 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016)
      Conference report
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      This paper presents a mathematical model for supporting the decision and policy making related to the optimal determination of shifts and fares of taxi services in a major city. The model is based on the system’s generalized ...