Ride-hailing platforms: Competition and autonomous vehicles

A Siddiq, TA Taylor - Manufacturing & Service Operations …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Problem definition: Ride-hailing platforms, which are currently struggling with profitability,
view autonomous vehicles (AVs) as important to their long-term profitability and prospects …

Should ride-sharing platforms cooperate with car-rental companies? Implications for consumer surplus and driver surplus

X Lin, C Sun, B Cao, YW Zhou, C Chen - Omega, 2021 - Elsevier
The booming on-demand ride-sharing economy induces drivers who do or do not own cars
to provide services on ride-sharing platforms. To meet growing demand, in practice the …

A two-period game-theoretical model for heterogeneous ride-sourcing platforms with asymmetric competition and mixed fleets

Z Cai, D Mo, W Tang, Y Chen, XM Chen - Transportation Research Part E …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the current ride-sourcing market, significant differences generally exist among various
platforms: market share, market position, and vehicle type. Most previous studies focus on …

Modeling and managing mixed on-demand ride services of human-driven vehicles and autonomous vehicles

D Mo, XM Chen, J Zhang - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2022 - Elsevier
We model a monopoly ride-sourcing market where the platform adopts the service types of
human-driven vehicles (HVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs). Both congestion externality …

Drivers of supplier participation in ride-hailing platforms

SJ Hong, JM Bauer, K Lee… - Journal of management …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Ride-hailing platforms such as Uber offer service suppliers more flexible work conditions but
lower security than permanent jobs. This study examines the preferences of ride-hailing …

On-demand ride-hailing platforms in competition with the taxi industry: Pricing strategies and government supervision

Y Zhong, T Yang, B Cao, TCE Cheng - International Journal of Production …, 2022 - Elsevier
We consider the case where a large-scale entry of ride-hailing vehicles have significant
impacts on the taxi market, which may result in many taxi drivers being forced to withdraw …

An economic analysis of on-demand food delivery platforms: Impacts of regulations and integration with ride-sourcing platforms

Y Liu, S Li - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents an economic analysis of on-demand food-delivery platforms and
investigates management strategies that protect restaurant owners and for-hire gig workers …

[HTML][HTML] Implications of ride-sourcing and self-driving vehicles on the need for regulation in unscheduled passenger transport

J Aarhaug, S Olsen - Research in Transportation Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
The recent emergence of large-scale ride-sourcing services, such as Uber and Lyft, is a
major development in passenger transport. By utilizing fleets of private cars and app …

Competition and third-party platform-integration in ride-sourcing markets

Y Zhou, H Yang, J Ke, H Wang, X Li - Transportation Research Part B …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, some third-party integrators attempt to integrate the ride services offered by
multiple independent ride-sourcing platforms. Accordingly, passengers can request ride …

Platform competition in the sharing economy: Understanding how ride-hailing services influence new car purchases

Y Guo, X Li, X Zeng - Journal of Management Information Systems, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Ride-hailing services provide not only alternative transportation for passengers but also job
opportunities for potential drivers, resulting in both negative and positive effects on new car …