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Difference between drt, av, and taxi modules?

by Jishnu Narayan on 2017-07-10 09:32:21

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Hello all,

  Is there any difference in the vehicle dispatching algorithm that is used in drt, av, and taxi modules (in terms of how requests are submitted and how vehicles are assigned to requests etc)? Or does all of them have the same routing strategy with different names?

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Comments: 1

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Re: Difference between drt, av, and taxi modules?

by Michal Maciejewski on 2017-07-10 10:05:23

Hi Jishnu,

There are two main on-demand contribs, which focus on real-time fleet dispatching:

1. taxi – for unshared rides
2. drt – for shared rides

There is also old 'taxibus' code but soon will be removed – see: 

AV has a different purpose – it provides additional features related to simulating AV in general (not only shared AVs), such as the increase flow capacity. It also has a router for planning daily trips of people that can combine the shared-AVs and PT modes (but this planning is the customer/demand side, contrary to taxi and drt).

Hope that helps,
Michal