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 …

Deeppool: Distributed model-free algorithm for ride-sharing using deep reinforcement learning

AO Al-Abbasi, A Ghosh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The success of modern ride-sharing platforms crucially depends on the profit of the ride-
sharing fleet operating companies, and how efficiently the resources are managed. Further …

Mechanism design for first-mile ridesharing based on personalized requirements part I: Theoretical analysis in generalized scenarios

Z Bian, X Liu - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
Ridesharing is an effective transportation mode to provide first-mile accessibility to public
transit and a low-cost, environment-friendly, and sustainable mobility service. This paper …

Route-cost-assignment with joint user and operator behavior as a many-to-one stable matching assignment game

S Rasulkhani, JYJ Chow - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a generalized market equilibrium model using assignment game criteria for
evaluating transportation systems that consist of both operators' and users' decisions. The …

A distributed model-free algorithm for multi-hop ride-sharing using deep reinforcement learning

A Singh, AO Al-Abbasi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The growth of autonomous vehicles, ridesharing systems, and self-driving technology will
bring a shift in the way ride hailing platforms plan out their services. However, these …

Mechanism design for on-demand first-mile ridesharing

Z Bian, X Liu, Y Bai - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2020 - Elsevier
Ridesharing emerges as a viable way to bridge the first-mile accessibility gap to public
transit. There is particularly a high demand for the first-mile ridesharing service in transit …

Fair cost allocation for ridesharing services–modeling, mathematical programming and an algorithm to find the nucleolus

W Lu, L Quadrifoglio - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper addresses one of the most challenging issues in designing an efficient and
sustainable ridesharing service: ridesharing market design. We formulate it as a fair cost …

Detours in shared rides

I Lobel, S Martin - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Detours are considered key for the efficient operation of a shared rides service, but they are
also a major pain point for consumers of such services. This paper studies the relationship …

Carpool services for ride‐sharing platforms: Price and welfare implications

X Wang, R Zhang - Naval Research Logistics (NRL), 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There has been rapid growth in on‐demand ride‐hailing platforms that serve as an
intermediary to match individual service providers (drivers) with consumer demand (riders) …

[PDF][PDF] A reinforcement learning based algorithm for multi-hop ride-sharing: Model-free approach

A Singh, A Al-Abbasi, V Aggarwal - Neural Information Processing …, 2019 - ml4ad.github.io
The growth of autonomous vehicles and self driving technology will bring a shift in the way
ride hailing platforms plan out their services. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-hop ride …