Ridesourcing systems: A framework and review

H Wang, H Yang - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
With the rapid development and popularization of mobile and wireless communication
technologies, ridesourcing companies have been able to leverage internet-based platforms …

Analysis and control of autonomous mobility-on-demand systems

G Zardini, N Lanzetti, M Pavone… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Challenged by urbanization and increasing travel needs, existing transportation systems
need new mobility paradigms. In this article, we present the emerging concept of …

Operations management in the age of the sharing economy: What is old and what is new?

S Benjaafar, M Hu - Manufacturing & Service Operations …, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
The sharing economy, a term we use to refer to business models built around on-demand
access to products and services mediated by online platforms that match many small …

Dynamic matching for real-time ride sharing

E Özkan, AR Ward - Stochastic Systems, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
In a ride-sharing system, arriving customers must be matched with available drivers. These
decisions affect the overall number of customers matched, because they impact whether …

Frontiers in service science: Ride matching for peer-to-peer ride sharing: A review and future directions

A Tafreshian, N Masoud, Y Yin - Service Science, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
As a consequence of the sharing economy attaining more popularity, there has been a shift
toward shared-use mobility services in recent years, especially those that encourage users …

A mean-field Markov decision process model for spatial-temporal subsidies in ride-sourcing markets

Z Zhu, J Ke, H Wang - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021 - Elsevier
Ride-sourcing services are increasingly popular because of their ability to accommodate on-
demand travel needs. A critical issue faced by ride-sourcing platforms is the supply-demand …

Ride-hailing networks with strategic drivers: The impact of platform control capabilities on performance

P Afeche, Z Liu, C Maglaras - Rotman School of Management …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract Problem Definition: Motivated by ride-hailing platforms such as Uber, Lyft and Didi,
we study the problem of matching riders with self-interested drivers over a spatial network …

Approximate dynamic programming for planning a ride-hailing system using autonomous fleets of electric vehicles

L Al-Kanj, J Nascimento, WB Powell - European Journal of Operational …, 2020 - Elsevier
We address a comprehensive ride-hailing system taking into account many of the decisions
required to operate it in reality. The ride-hailing system is formed of a centrally managed …

The cost of convenience: Ridehailing and traffic fatalities

JM Barrios, YV Hochberg, H Yi - Journal of Operations …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the effect of the introduction of ridehailing in US cities on fatal traffic accidents.
The arrival of ridehailing is associated with an approximately 3% increase in the number of …

Dispatch of autonomous vehicles for taxi services: A deep reinforcement learning approach

C Mao, Y Liu, ZJM Shen - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we define and investigate a novel model-free deep reinforcement learning
framework to solve the taxi dispatch problem. The framework can be used to redistribute …