Agent-Based Modeling of Smart Sustainable Mobility Services, Markets, and Policy

The transportation system is undergoing several transformations at once: The pressing need to become environmentally sustainable, reflected by the increased uptake of electric vehicles. The intertwined trends of transportation servitization and platformization that often culminate in user-facing applications that bundle all mobility-on-demand offers together. This dynamic system comprises heterogeneous services that interact with each other. Uncertainty is imposed by competition and regulation from policy, as actors behave self-interested. I explore the use of agent-based modeling and multi-agent simulation, configured with empirical data, for realistic scenario analysis of services, markets, and policy. In this piece, I dive deeper into one example of that research agenda: The coordination of a scarce resource (charging infrastructure) among competitors (ride hailing operators).