Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

8-2021

Abstract

Ride hailing is a widespread shared mobility application where the central issue is to assign taxi requests to drivers with various objectives. Despite extensive research on task assignment in ride hailing, the fairness of earnings among drivers is largely neglected. Pioneer studies on fair task assignment in ride hailing are ineffective and inefficient due to their myopic optimization perspective and timeconsuming assignment techniques. In this work, we propose LAF, an effective and efficient task assignment scheme that optimizes both utility and fairness. We adopt reinforcement learning to make assignments in a holistic manner and propose a set of acceleration techniques to enable fast fair assignment on large-scale data. Experiments show that LAF outperforms the state-of-the-arts by up to 86.7%, 29.1%, 797% on fairness, utility and efficiency, respectively

Keywords

fairness, ride hailing, reinforcement learning

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

KDD '21: Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Virtual Conference, August 14-18

ISBN

9781450383325

Identifier

10.1145/3447548.3467085

Publisher

Virtual Conference

City or Country

Singapore

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