“…The research related to autonomous vehicle scheduling is hidden under occasionally surprising key-words; for example: Shared autonomous vehicles, also known as aTaxis (Zachariah et al, 2014), personal rapid transit (in an open-control framework) (Berger et al, 2011), flexible mobility on demand systems (Atasoy et al, 2015), demand responsive transport services (Diana, 2006), demand responsive transport systems (Deflorio, 2011), taxi on demand (Thomopoulos et al, 2007), driverless public transport pods, mobile location-based services (Silva and Mateus, 2003), taxicab networks (Zhang and He, 2012), unmanned automated vehicles, mobile robots, cyber cars (Awasthi et al, 2011), smart cyber fleets (Billhardt et al, 2014), cybernetic transportation system (Wang et al, 2008), autonomous dial-a-ride transit (Dial, 1995), tele bus or autonomous free-floating carsharing fleets (Firnkorn and Müller, 2014).…”