Dynamic Fleet Management for Autonomous Vehicles

Propositions

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1. Going the extra mile to meet user service levels is the best route to the autonomous vehicle utopia. (This thesis)

2. Ownership and sharing paradigms can coexist in autonomous mobility-on-demand systems. (This thesis)

3. Analogously to beauty, service quality is in the eyes of the beholder. (This thesis) 4. While no one can accurately assess bad experiences’ repercussions, a clear

agree-ment can be a shortcut to an upturn. (This thesis)

5. Pathematha mathemata: failing to profit is not enough to stimulate real change. 6. Except for on-demand fleet elasticity, most advantages of autonomous vehicles

can be accomplished by a set of low-paid, very skilled drivers.

7. Embracing one’s current state but not necessarily accepting it is the best recipe for eliminating resentment and starting to change for good.

8. One’s successes owe more to generational meritocracy than individual meritoc-racy, though the former is a cumulative sum of the latter.

9. The exploration-exploitation dilemma manifests itself more severely when pursu-ing a PhD than in most areas of life.

10. Advances in automation can ultimately decrease the appeal of autonomous mobility-on-demand systems as more and more people could work from home.

These propositions are regarded as opposable and defendable, and have been approved as such by the promotor Prof. Dr. R. R. Negenborn and the copromotor Dr. F. Schulte.