Modelling and analysis of online ride-sharing platforms – A sustainability perspective

Yuhan Guo, Yu Zhang, Youssef Boulaksil, Yaguan Qian and Hamid Allaoui

European Journal of Operational Research, 2023, vol. 304, issue 2, 577-595

Abstract: By directly connecting passengers and private transportation service providers, online ride-sharing platforms reduce the number of intermediaries and improve the utilization of transportation resources. In addition to economic benefits, ride-sharing could provide environmental and social advantages. This paper studies a sustainability-oriented operational model for online ride-sharing platforms. We develop a holistic multi-objective mathematical model considering important indicators of the triple-bottom-line and examine its effects on the dispatching strategy. An effective method has been introduced to solve the model, as well as an approach to efficiently generate the Pareto front. Moreover, we validate the model and the solution methods through an extensive case study with different scenarios based on large-scale real-world data. We study the correlation among the objectives and analyse their variation trends when adjusting the influential factors. Finally, in this paper, useful managerial insights are provided for decision-makers of the platforms, such as how to balance the triple-bottom-line in a smart way.

Keywords: Decision analysis; Ride-sharing; Sustainability; Service supply chain; Pareto front (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (8)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377221722003514
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:304:y:2023:i:2:p:577-595

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.04.035

Access Statistics for this article

European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati

More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().