Research Article

Evaluating the Impacts of Optimization Horizon on the Shared Autonomous Vehicle Reservation Request System

Table 4

Components of parking costs and fuel costs.

ComponentsDescription

Parking cost 1The vehicle on link (id, jp) arrives at the pickup node of the request in advance and waits for departure.
Parking cost 2The vehicle on link (od, jp) waits for the next demand to depart.
Parking cost 3The vehicle finishes the request and parks in place until the next optimization.
Parking cost 4The idle vehicle parks in place and is not dispatched.
Fuel cost 1Fuel cost for vehicles traveling on link (ip, id).
Fuel cost 2Fuel cost for vehicles traveling on link (op, jd).
Fuel cost 3Fuel cost for vehicles traveling on link (id, jp).
Fuel cost 4Fuel cost for vehicles traveling on link (od, jp).
Fuel cost 5Fuel cost for vehicles traveling on link (o, ip).
Fuel cost 6Fuel cost for vehicles traveling on link (id, d).
Fuel cost 7Fuel cost for vehicles traveling on link (od, d).