Dynamic pricing and matching in ride‐hailing platforms

C Yan, H Zhu, N Korolko… - Naval Research Logistics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ride‐hailing platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DiDi have achieved explosive growth and
reshaped urban transportation. The theory and technologies behind these platforms have …

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 …

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 …

Pricing and optimization in shared vehicle systems: An approximation framework

S Banerjee, D Freund, T Lykouris - Operations Research, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Optimizing shared vehicle systems (bike-/scooter-/car-/ride-sharing) are more challenging
compared with traditional resource allocation settings because of the presence of complex …

Edge weighted online windowed matching

I Ashlagi, M Burq, C Dutta, P Jaillet, A Saberi… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Motivated by applications from ride-sharing and kidney exchange, we study the problem of
matching agents who arrive at a marketplace over time and leave after d time periods …

Dynamic pricing of relocating resources in large networks

SR Balseiro, DB Brown, C Chen - ACM SIGMETRICS Performance …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We study dynamic pricing of resources that are distributed over a network of locations (eg,
shared vehicle systems and logistics networks). Customers with private willingness-to-pay …

Joint pricing and matching in ride-sharing systems

E Özkan - European Journal of Operational Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Ride-sharing firms use pricing and matching decisions to control the ride-sharing platforms.
Those decisions can be made jointly or interchangeably, which raises the following …

Two-stage stochastic approximation for dynamic rebalancing of shared mobility systems

J Warrington, D Ruchti - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mobility systems featuring shared vehicles are often unable to serve all potential customers,
as the distribution of demand does not coincide with the positions of vehicles at any given …

Spatial capacity planning

O Besbes, F Castro, I Lobel - Operations Research, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the relationship between capacity and performance for a service firm with spatial
operations, in the sense that requests arrive with origin-destination pairs. An example of …