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Regulating Spatial Fairness in a Tripartite Micromobility Sharing System via Reinforcement Learning

Published: April 3, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.02597v1

By: Matteo Cederle, Marco Fabris, Gian Antonio Susto

Potential Business Impact:

Makes shared bikes available everywhere fairly.

Business Areas:
Car Sharing Transportation

In the growing field of Shared Micromobility Systems, which holds great potential for shaping urban transportation, fairness-oriented approaches remain largely unexplored. This work addresses such a gap by investigating the balance between performance optimization and algorithmic fairness in Shared Micromobility Services using Reinforcement Learning. Our methodology achieves equitable outcomes, measured by the Gini index, across central, peripheral, and remote station categories. By strategically rebalancing vehicle distribution, it maximizes operator performance while upholding fairness principles. The efficacy of our approach is validated through a case study using synthetic data.

Page Count
6 pages

Category
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science:
Systems and Control