Ahwad -This paper proposes and examines a new approach using furzy logic to vehicle fleet deployment Fleet deployment is viewed as a furzy linear assignment problem. It assigns each travel request to an available service vehicle through solving a linear assignment malrix ofdefunkd cost entries Each cost entry indicates the cost value of a travel request that "fuzzily aggregates" multiple criteria in simple rules incorporating human dispatching expertise. The approach is examined via extensive simulations anchored in a representative Scenario of taxi deployment, and compared to the conventional case of using only distances (each from the taxi position to the source point and finally destination point of a travel request) as eost entries Discussion in the context of related work examines the performance and practicality of the proposed approach.
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