A Universal Simulation Platform for the Mobility on Demand System

Ride-hailing services are typical on-demand mobility services. The efficiency of a ride-hailing system depends on the degree of coordination between the supply and demand distribution in space and time. The simulation platform for a ride-hailing system can provide a basic environment to train and test various algorithms for developing better operation strategies, such as vehicle repositioning, order dispatching, etc. In this paper, we design a universal simulation platform for the ride-hailing system, applicable to both grid map environment and road network map environment, and illustrate the map environment design and pre-processing methods using the real data of Chengdu.