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Rideshare is one way to share mobility in transportation without increasing traffic demand, where travel mobility and usage of vehicle capacity can be improved. However, current literature on rideshare has allowed only one-modal trips and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-21 Soomin Woo

As a significant factor in urban planning, traffic forecasting and prediction of epidemics, modeling patterns of human mobility draws intensive attention from researchers for decades. Power-law distribution and its variations are observed…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-10-28 Xiao Liang , Xudong Zheng , Weifeng Lv , Tongyu Zhu , Ke Xu

Human mobility regularity is crucial for understanding urban dynamics and informing decision-making processes. This study first quantifies the periodicity in complex human mobility data as a sparse identification of dominant positive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Xinyu Chen , Qi Wang , Yunhan Zheng , Nina Cao , HanQin Cai , Jinhua Zhao

This research introduces a mathematical framework to comprehending human mobility patterns, integrating mathematical modeling and economic analysis. The study focuses on latent-variable networks, investigating the dynamics of human mobility…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-27 Fabio Vanni

We introduce an improved algorithm for the dynamic taxi sharing problem, i.e. a dispatcher that schedules a fleet of shared taxis as it is used by services like UberXShare and Lyft Shared. We speed up the basic online algorithm that looks…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Moritz Laupichler , Peter Sanders

Car pooling is expected to significantly help in reducing traffic congestion and pollution in cities by enabling drivers to share their cars with travellers with similar itineraries and time schedules. A number of car pooling matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Mattia Giovanni Campana , Franca Delmastro , Raffaele Bruno

The rapid expansion of ride-sharing services has caused significant disruptions in the transpor-tation industry and fundamentally altered the way individuals move from one place to another. Accurate estimation of ride-sharing improves…

Applications · Statistics 2025-08-12 Mohamed Elkhouly , Taqwa Alhadidi

Transportation services play a crucial part in the development of modern smart cities. In particular, on-demand ridesharing services, which group together passengers with similar itineraries, are already operating in several metropolitan…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-27 David Zar , Noam Hazon , Amos Azaria

We consider the problem of enhancing the delivery of real-time traffic in wireless networks using bandwidth sharing between operators. A key characteristic of real-time traffic is that a packet has to be delivered within a delay deadline…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Sushi Anna George , Vinay Joseph

Peer-to-peer ridesharing (P2P-RS) enables people to arrange one-time rides with their own private cars, without the involvement of professional drivers. It is a prominent collective intelligence application producing significant benefits…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Filippo Bistaffa , Juan A. Rodríguez-Aguilar , Jesús Cerquides

The rapid expansion of the on-demand economy has profoundly reshaped urban mobility and logistics, yet high-resolution trajectory data on delivery riders' consistent movements remains scarce. Here, we present a city-scale, high-resolution…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-17 Chengbo Zhang , Yonglin Li , Zuopeng Xiao

Although shared rides have the potential to increase vehicle utilization and reduce congestion and emissions, these benefits depend heavily on ridesharing platforms' ability to match riders effectively. As such, shared rides have seen…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yifan Shen , Junlin Chen , Julia Yan , Chiwei Yan

This paper considers real-time dispatching for large-scale ride-sharing services over a rolling horizon. It presents RTDARS which relies on a column-generation algorithm to minimize wait times while guaranteeing short travel times and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Connor Riley , Antoine Legrain , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In current study, a mechanism to extract traffic related information such as congestion and incidents from textual data from the internet is proposed. The current source of data is Twitter. As the data being considered is extremely large in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-01-20 Chandra Khatri

Operators of Electric Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (E-AMoD) fleets need to make several real-time decisions such as matching available vehicles to ride requests, rebalancing idle vehicles to areas of high demand, and charging vehicles to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Aaryan Singhal , Daniele Gammelli , Justin Luke , Karthik Gopalakrishnan , Dominik Helmreich , Marco Pavone

Ride sharing - the bundling of simultaneous trips of several people in one vehicle - may help to reduce the carbon footprint of human mobility. However, standard door-to-door ride sharing services trade reduced route length for increased…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-01-13 Charlotte Lotze , Philip Marszal , Malte Schröder , Marc Timme

The operation of urban transportation produces massive traffic data, which contains abundant information and is of great significance for the study of intelligent transportation systems. In particular, with the improvement of perception…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Guilong Li , Yixian Chen , Jun Xie , Qinghai Lin , Zhaocheng He

Bike sharing systems often suffer from poor capacity management as a result of variable demand. These bike sharing systems would benefit from models to predict demand in order to moderate the number of bikes stored at each station. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Alexander Saff , Mayur Bhandary , Siddharth Srivastava

Census and Household Travel Survey datasets are regularly collected from households and individuals and provide information on their daily travel behavior with demographic and economic characteristics. These datasets have important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Eren Arkangil , Mehmet Yildirimoglu , Jiwon Kim , Carlo Prato

The importance of understanding human mobility patterns has led many studies to examine their spatial-temporal scaling laws. These studies mainly reveal that human travel can be highly non-homogeneous with power-law scaling distributions of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-14 Xiaoyan Feng , Huijun Sun , Bnaya Gross , Jianjun Wu , Daqing Li , Xin Yang , Dong Zhou , Ziyou Gao , Shlomo Havlin