Title
Large-Scale Order Dispatch in On-Demand Ride-Hailing Platforms: A Learning and Planning Approach.
Abstract
We present a novel order dispatch algorithm in large-scale on-demand ride-hailing platforms. While traditional order dispatch approaches usually focus on immediate customer satisfaction, the proposed algorithm is designed to provide a more efficient way to optimize resource utilization and user experience in a global and more farsighted view. In particular, we model order dispatch as a large-scale sequential decision-making problem, where the decision of assigning an order to a driver is determined by a centralized algorithm in a coordinated way. The problem is solved in a learning and planning manner: 1) based on historical data, we first summarize demand and supply patterns into a spatiotemporal quantization, each of which indicates the expected value of a driver being in a particular state; 2) a planning step is conducted in real-time, where each driver-order-pair is valued in consideration of both immediate rewards and future gains, and then dispatch is solved using a combinatorial optimizing algorithm. Through extensive offline experiments and online AB tests, the proposed approach delivers remarkable improvement on the platform's efficiency and has been successfully deployed in the production system of Didi Chuxing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3219819.3219824
KDD
Keywords
Field
DocType
Intelligent Transportation System,Order Dispatch,Reinforcement Learning,Planning,Multi-agent System
User experience design,Customer satisfaction,On demand,Computer science,Operations research,Multi-agent system,Artificial intelligence,Intelligent transportation system,Supply and demand,Quantization (signal processing),Machine learning,Reinforcement learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5552-0
20
0.72
References 
Authors
21
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhe Xu11368.29
Zhixin Li211124.43
Qingwen Guan3200.72
Dingshui Zhang4200.72
Qiang Li559954.40
Junxiao Nan6200.72
Chunyang Liu76210.07
Wei Bian8200.72
Jieping Ye96943351.37