Household use of autonomous vehicles with ride sourcing

Abstract The prospect of autonomous vehicles (AVs) offers the possibility that a household could reduce household owned vehicles to a single vehicle. At the same time, with AVs, a Shared Autonomous Vehicle (SAV) system will rise as a primary mode of serving travel demands. This study aims to model households’ activity/travel decisions using both household owned AVs as well as readily available SAVs to perform daily activities. We formulate the Household Activity Pattern Problem with Autonomous Vehicles and Ride Sourcing (HAPPAV-RS), as a mixed integer linear program. The model generates an optimal activity/travel patterns for household members under spatial and temporal constraints. The model can capture driverless operations such as AV pick-up and drop-off, parking availability, empty trips and ridesharing among household members, as well as the use of SAVs with the request waiting time. A decomposition method is used to solve the NP-hard problem HAPPAV-RS. scenarios on using AVs and SAVs with different travel mode availability, AV/SAV cost and SAV waiting time are designed to enable sensitivity analysis. Various travel metrics such as activity pattern feasibility, household’s total travel disutility, travel mode VMT and AV-SAV trip coverage are reported.