DREMTS: Demand Responsive Electrified Multimodal Transit Systems
Recent technological and business advances have supported the rise of new shared on-demand mobility services (such as ridesharing, micro-mobility, etc) that promise opportunities for improved accessibility. However their integration with classical transit systems continue to challenge the existing planning and operations and to understand the full potential gains in welfare for complex transportation systems of the future. Beyond these, the increasing electrification of transport requires a holistic approach to planning and managing the coupled transportation and power networks with cleaner energy.
This project focuses on the following central question: How to design an efficient and sustainable electrified integrated transit ecosystem that aligns the needs of the individual traveler, and creates values for providers of both transit and on-demand services, and society as a whole?
The DREMTS project explores the concept of demand-responsive electrified multimodal transit systems and develops data-driven network design, and operation control and management methodologies. DREMTS combines high-occupancy electrified vehicles (buses or trains) with electric on-demand mobility services under a mobility-as-a-service framework, and builds new planning and operation algorithms targeting both the mobility operators, the individual user and energy providers.
The project includes 4 threads of research: (1) combined mobility and energy network design; (2) energy and transit cooperative algorithms for shared-mobility fleet operations; (3) prediction of individual behaviour under Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) and design of dynamic pricing and incentive mechanisms at the trip and individual level; (3) large-scale agent-based simulation platform to validate the new generation of algorithms.
The project is funded under the DTU-KTH Alliance and in collaboration with Machine Learning for Smart Mobility Group at DTU. DREMTS aims at significant sustainability impacts in the decision making process of the next generation multi-modal public transportation systems. Several MaaS initiatives and public transportation electrification have been initiated around the world and DREMTS will support directly such initiatives in Denmark, Sweden, and beyond.