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🧠 Beautiful minds have recently joined our team: 🟠 Łukasz Gorczyca - a part-time student assistant - simulates the future mixed Human-CAV systems with 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐑𝐋 🟡 Natello Descormier - student from École Polytechnique for a 16-week research internship to study coalition games between AVs and humans on urban road networks 🟢 Paweł Gora - experienced part-time PostDoctoral Researcher - will try to beat the humans on travel times with cutting-edge Reinforcement Learning algorithms (on our forthcoming 𝐮𝐫𝐛 benchmark). Good luck 👊

A shared taxi 🚕 for the price of a bus 🚌 - that’s the simplest definition of LajkBus. On February 10th as part of the SUM Project, we launched a pilot service offering convenient on-demand transport. Thanks to it, almost all residents of Skotniki have a virtual public transport stop within a walking distance of 300 meters. It started with 15 and now our 2 vans transport about 2️00 passengers every day! Great cooperation of various parties that made it happen! 🔵 Supported with SUM Project. 🔵 Initiated and put to life by Łukasz Gryga and his team in ZTP Krakow. 🔵 Orchestrated by SCALAR ZF Group. 🔵 Analysed, simulated with our team at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie: Olha Shulika, Michał Bujak, Farnoud Ghasemi, Hanna Vasiutina - with our 𝐄𝐱𝐌𝐀𝐒 ride-pooling algorithm (with methodology similar to the one used here)

During the 16th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport CASPT2025 in Kyoto (Japan) 🎤Rafal will present our studies on Methodology for Idenfying the Most Suitable Urban Area for Implementing On-Demand Feeder Bus Services. This information is a great reward for the whole SUM team for their multi-month research efforts. Be ready for the report from 🇯🇵

Suppose in a stable urban traffic system populated only by human driven vehicles (HDVs), a given proportion (e.g.10 %) is replaced by a fleet of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), which share information and pursue a collective goal. Suppose these vehicles are centrally coordinated and differ from HDVs only by their collective capacities allowing them to make more efficient routing decisions before the travel on a given day begins. Suppose there is a choice between two routes and every day each driver makes a decision which route to take. Human drivers maximize their utility. CAVs might optimize different goals, such as the total travel time of the fleet. We show that in this plausible futuristic setting, the strategy CAVs are allowed to adopt may result in human drivers either benefitting or being systematically disadvantaged and urban networks becoming more or less optimal. Consequently, some regulatory measures might become indispensable. Ready for more? See our latest article in Scientific Reports 📖

COeXISTENCE and SUM team members had a busy time but effects are visible to the naked eye. In the first month of the year we submitted 4 papers for hEART conference, 1 for EWGT conference, 1 for CASPT conference. Big applause for dedication and work👏 Fingers crossed for positive news!

📣IGLO Open on the Polish Presidency: Programme and R&I Priorities is only one week away! Don’t wait and register via this LINK. This event will serve as a platform to present and discuss Poland’s strategic vision and priorities in Research and Innovation during its presidency. Among many great scientists there will be also Rafał Kucharski. He will take part in panel discussion with ERC laureates moderated by Prof. Leszek Kaczmarek, ERC Scientific Council Member. Add to your calendar: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 10:00-13:00 CET