Sustainable Passenger Transportation: Dynamic Ride-Sharing
2010-02-25
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Ride-share systems, which aim to bring together travelers with similar itineraries and time schedules, may provide significant societal and environmental benefits by reducing the number of cars used for personal travel and improving the utilization of available seat capacity. Effective and efficient optimization technology that matches drivers and riders in real-time is one of the necessary components for a successful ride-share system. We formally define dynamic ride-sharing and outline the optimization challenges that arise when developing technology to support ride-sharing. We hope that this paper will encourage more research by the transportation science and logistics community in this exciting, emerging area of public transportation.
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Classifications using
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System
- M : Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting
- R4 : Transportation Systems
- M11 : Production Management
Automatically Extracted Terms
- driver
- rider
- ride-share
- system
- transportation
- ride-sharing
- participant
- travel
- problem
- destination
- transit
- research
- location
- origin
- ride-share provider
- passenger
- vehicle
- ride-share system
- number
- travel time
