Real-time ridesharing: exploring the opportunities and challenges of designing a technology-based rideshare trial for the MIT community

AM Amey - 2010 - dspace.mit.edu
The potential benefits from increased ridesharing are substantial, and impact a wide range
of stakeholders. In a properly applied rideshare scheme, drivers and passengers achieve …

Real-time ridesharing: opportunities and challenges in using mobile phone technology to improve rideshare services

A Amey, J Attanucci… - Transportation Research …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent years, an innovative ridesharing service relying heavily on advanced mobile phone
technologies known as real-time ridesharing or dynamic ridesharing, has gained popularity …

Ridesharing: The state-of-the-art and future directions

M Furuhata, M Dessouky, F Ordóñez, ME Brunet… - … Research Part B …, 2013 - Elsevier
Although ridesharing can provide a wealth of benefits, such as reduced travel costs,
congestion, and consequently less pollution, there are a number of challenges that have …

Ridesharing in North America: Past, present, and future

ND Chan, SA Shaheen - Transport reviews, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Since the late 1990s, numerous ridematching programmes have integrated the Internet,
mobile phones, and social networking into their services. Online ridematching systems are …

Markets for dynamic ridesharing? Case of Berkeley, California

E Deakin, KT Frick, KM Shively - Transportation Research …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Ridesharing programs are widespread across the United States. Dynamic ridesharing is a
newer way to share rides on the fly or up to several days in advance using cell phone or …

Shared ride services in North America: definitions, impacts, and the future of pooling

S Shaheen, A Cohen - Transport reviews, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Shared ride services allow riders to share a ride to a common destination. They include
ridesharing (carpooling and vanpooling); ridesplitting (a pooled version of ridesourcing …

Part-time ride-sharing: recognizing the context in which drivers ride-share and its impact on platform use

NF Ma, BV Hanrahan - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Ride-sharing companies have been reshaping the structure and practice of ride-hailing
work. At the same time, studies have been showing mixed driver experiences on the …

Strangers On This Road We Are On: A Literature Review of Pooling in On-Demand Mobility Services

T Hansen, IN Sener - Transportation Research Record, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Ridepooling service options introduced by transportation network companies (TNCs) and
microtransit companies provide opportunities to increase shared-ride trips in vehicles …

To share or not to share: Investigating the social aspects of dynamic ridesharing

JM Sarriera, GE Álvarez, K Blynn… - Transportation …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Transportation network companies (TNCs) have introduced shared-ride versions of their
ordinary services, such as UberPool or Lyft Line. The concept is simple: passengers pay …

A systematic literature review of ride-sharing platforms, user factors and barriers

L Mitropoulos, A Kortsari, G Ayfantopoulou - European Transport Research …, 2021 - Springer
Aim Ride-sharing is an innovative on-demand transport service that aims to promote
sustainable transport, reduce car utilization, increase vehicle occupancy and public …