Taxi hailing apps that facilitate taxi-customer matching quickly become popular in recent
years. By combining the theories of two-sided market and taxi market, this paper models the …

Ride-sourcing is a prominent transportation mode because of its cost-effectiveness and
convenience. It provides an on-demand mobility platform that acts as a two-sided market by …

Traditionally, customers always hail empty-cruising taxis on streets, which may offer low
levels of comfort and efficiency especially during rush hours or rainy days. Thanks to the …

In this paper, we examine the hypothesis that bicycles can compete with cars in terms of
travel time in dense urban areas. We conduct a detailed investigation of the differences in …

This paper proposes an equilibrium model to characterize the bilateral searching and
meeting between customers and taxis on road networks. A taxi driver searches or waits for a …

One of the key aspects of graduated driver licensing programs is the new-driver experience
gained in the presence of a guardian (a person providing mandatory supervision from the …

Smartphone-based taxi-hailing applications (apps) bring about significant changes to the
taxi market in recent years. As platforms that connect customers and taxi drivers, taxi-hailing …

The equilibrium properties of an aggregate taxi market are investigated using a general
bilateral searching and meeting function which characterizes the search frictions between …

The optimal routing of a vacant taxi is formulated as a Markov Decision Process (MDP)
problem to account for long-term profit over the full working period. The state is defined by …

Autonomous ride-hailing platforms, such as Waymo and Cruise, are quickly expanding their
services, but their interactions with the existing ride-hailing companies, such as Uber and …