Lyft, Inc.

Ramon Dario Iglesias

Shashi Kant Sharma

Davide Crapis

Hao Yi Ong

Praveen Athmanathan Panneer Selvam

Timothy Tay Chao

Philippe Charles Amilcar Mizrahi

Aseem Garg

David Elijah Alpern Boehm

Varun Kashyap Krishnan

Derek William Salama

Xiaoling Charlene Zhou

Renaud Louis Jean-Paul De Peretti

Tejinder Singh Aulakh

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating and transmitting autonomous vehicle prepositioning instructions to improve network coverage. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems subdivide a geographic transportation service area into subregions, generate a set of waypoints and circuits for the subregions. Moreover, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize an optimization model to assign autonomous vehicles to the set of waypoints and circuits and transmit digital prepositioning instructions to the autonomous vehicles to traverse the waypoints and circuits.

Generating and transmitting autonomous vehicle prepositioning instructions to improve network coverage

The present application discloses systems, methods, and computer-readable media that can dynamically control a number of provider devices operating in a prioritized-dispatch mode by determining a range of prioritized-dispatch-mode slots for a target time based on differences between value metrics received by provider devices operating in multiple dispatch modes and sending availability nudges to provider devices based on the range of prioritized-dispatch-mode slots. For instance, the disclosed systems can generate a threshold-noticeable-value difference between historical value metrics received by provider devices while operating in a prioritized-dispatch mode and in a basic-dispatch mode. Based on the threshold-noticeable-value difference, the disclosed systems determine a range of slots for the prioritized-dispatch mode during a target time period for a geographic area. Based on the determined range of slots, the disclosed systems can transmit prioritized-mode-availability indicators to provider devices to indicate varying levels of availability of the prioritized-dispatch mode for the geographic area.

Dynamically adjusting a pool of transportation provider devices in a prioritized-dispatch mode using availability indicators

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