Smart cities (SCs) are becoming highly sophisticated ecosystems at which innovative
solutions and smart services are being deployed. These ecosystems consider SCs as data …

Location prediction is the key technique in many location based services including route
navigation, dining location recommendations, and traffic planning and control, to mention a …

We present a novel order dispatch algorithm in large-scale on-demand ride-hailing
platforms. While traditional order dispatch approaches usually focus on immediate customer …

Electric vehicle (EV) taxis have been introduced into the public transportation systems to
increase EV market penetration. Different from regular taxis that can refuel in minutes, EV …

Despite the great demand on and attempts at package express shipping services, online
retailers have not yet had a practical solution to make such services profitable. In this paper …

Recently, urban traffic management has encountered a paradoxical situation which is the
empty carrying phenomenon for taxi drivers and the difficulty of taking a taxi for passengers …

The transportation sector has become the leading and most-rapidly growing contributor to
greenhouse gas emissions. Promoting low-carbon travel mode is critical to alleviate this …

Massive and redundant vehicle trajectory data are continuously sent to the data center via
vehicle-mounted GPS devices, causing a number of sustainable issues, such as storage …

The increasingly wide usage of smart infrastructure and location-aware terminals has
helped increase the availability of trajectory data with rich spatiotemporal information. The …

Taxi services play an important role in the public transportation system of large cities.
Improving taxi business efficiency is an important societal problem since it could improve the …