Sustainable Passenger Transportation: Dynamic Ride-Sharing
Niels Agatz,
Alan Erera,
Martin Savelsbergh and
Xing Wang
ERIM Report Series Research in Management from Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Abstract:
Ride-share systems, which aim to bring together travelers with similar itineraries and time schedules, may provide significant societal and environmental benefits by reducing the number of cars used for personal travel and improving the utilization of available seat capacity. Effective and efficient optimization technology that matches drivers and riders in real-time is one of the necessary components for a successful ride-share system. We formally define dynamic ride-sharing and outline the optimization challenges that arise when developing technology to support ride-sharing. We hope that this paper will encourage more research by the transportation science and logistics community in this exciting, emerging area of public transportation.
Keywords: carpool; dynamic; passenger transportation; ride-sharing; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M M11 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02-25
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