Joint routing of transportation services for autonomous vehicles

A method for providing transportation services, comprising:

• receiving, by a service assignment system, a transportation service request from a user, the transportation service request describing a transportation service having a service start location and a service end location;
• generating, by the service assignment system, a plurality of routes for executing the transportation service;
• sending, by the service assignment system to a first autonomous vehicle (AV), proposed route data describing at least a portion of the plurality of routes;
• receiving, by the service assignment system from the first AV, intended route data describing a first route to execute the transportation service;
• and
• sending, by the service assignment system to the first AV, instruction data instructing the first AV to begin executing the transportation service.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a transportation service request from a user, the transportation service request describing a transportation service having a service start location and a service end location;
• generating a plurality of routes for executing the transportation service;
• sending, to a first autonomous vehicle (AV), proposed route data describing at least a portion of the plurality of routes;
• receiving, from the first AV, route data describing a first route to execute the transportation service;
• and
• sending, to the first AV, instruction data instructing the first AV to begin executing the transportation service.