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Applications · Statistics 2020-01-28 Jing Wu , Anna L. Smith , Tian Zheng

Bike-sharing has received considerable practice and research attention over the past decade. As a manpower-driven transportation mode, it seems more sensitive to trip length, since one could take a shared bike to a destinated place where is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-26 Feiyang Wang , Chaoying Yin , Ximing Chang , Der-Horng Lee , Zhengbing He

Vehicle sharing systems are becoming increasingly popular. The effectiveness of such systems depends, among other factors, on different strategic and operational management decisions and policies, like the dimension of the fleet or the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Alberto Fernández , Holger Billhardt , Sascha Ossowski , Óscar Sánchez

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

Graphs may be used to represent many different problem domains -- a concrete example is that of detecting communities in social networks, which are represented as graphs. With big data and more sophisticated applications becoming widespread…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Miguel E. Coimbra , Alexandre P. Francisco , Luis Veiga

Predicting future bus trip chains for an existing user is of great significance for operators of public transit systems. Existing methods always treat this task as a time-series prediction problem, but the 1-dimensional time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xiannan Huang , Yixin Chen , Quan Yuan , Chao Yang

We demonstrate how digital traces of city-bike trips may become useful to identify urban space attractiveness. We exploit their unique feature - stopovers: short, non traffic-related stops made by cyclists during their trips. As we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-09-17 Krystian Banet , Rafal Kucharski , Vitalii Naumov

As a newly-emerging travel mode in the era of mobile internet, ride-hailing that connects passengers with private-car drivers via an online platform has been very popular all over the world. Although it attracts much attention in both…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-13 Zhengbing He

Time-limited states characterise many dynamical processes on networks: disease infected individuals recover after some time, people forget news spreading on social networks, or passengers may not wait forever for a connection. These…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-13 Arash Badie-Modiri , Márton Karsai , Mikko Kivelä

Bike Sharing Systems (BSSs) are emerging as an innovative transportation service. Ensuring the proper functioning of a BSS is crucial given that these systems are committed to eradicating many of the current global concerns, by promoting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Bárbara Tavares , Cláudia Soares , Manuel Marques

We aim to study the temporal patterns of activity in points of interest of cities around the world. In order to do so, we use the data provided by the online location-based social network Foursquare, where users make check-ins that indicate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-29 Francisco Betancourt , Alejandro P. Riascos , José L. Mateos

This paper models the availability of bikes at San Francisco Bay Area Bike Share stations using machine learning algorithms. Random Forest (RF) and Least-Squares Boosting (LSBoost) were used as univariate regression algorithms, and Partial…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Huthaifa I. Ashqar , Mohammed Elhenawy , Mohammed H. Almannaa , Ahmed Ghanem , Hesham A. Rakha , Leanna House

Shifting to cycling in urban areas reduces greenhouse gas emissions and improves public health. Street-level bicycle volume information would aid cities in planning targeted infrastructure improvements to encourage cycling and provide civil…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Silke K. Kaiser , Nadja Klein , Lynn H. Kaack

Understanding the criteria that bicyclists apply when they choose their routes is crucial for planning new bicycle paths or recommending routes to bicyclists. This is becoming more and more important as city councils are becoming…

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In modern taxi networks, large amounts of taxi occupancy status and location data are collected from networked in-vehicle sensors in real-time. They provide knowledge of system models on passenger demand and mobility patterns for efficient…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Fei Miao , Shuo Han , Shan Lin , Qian Wang , John Stankovic , Abdeltawab Hendawi , Desheng Zhang , Tian He , George J. Pappas

This paper focuses on modeling ride requests and their variations over location and time, based on analyzing extensive real-world data from a ride-sharing service. We introduce a graph model that captures the spatial and temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Abhinav Jauhri , Brian Foo , Jerome Berclaz , Chih Chi Hu , Radek Grzeszczuk , Vasu Parameswaran , John Paul Shen

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

Accurate shared micromobility demand predictions are essential for transportation planning and management. Although deep learning models provide powerful tools to deal with demand prediction problems, studies on forecasting highly-accurate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yiming Xu , Qian Ke , Xiaojian Zhang , Xilei Zhao

Shared mobility systems (e.g., shared cars and ride-hailing services) generate persistent spatial imbalances as vehicles concentrate at popular destinations, leaving trip origins depleted of supply. Operators incur substantial costs in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Wenbo Fan , Zhouyun Chen , Weihua Gu

Various forms of disruption in transport systems perturb urban mobility in different ways. Passengers respond heterogeneously to such disruptive events based on numerous factors. This study takes a data-driven approach to explore…

Applications · Statistics 2023-07-04 Ali Shateri Benam , Angelo Furno , Nour-Eddin El Faouzi