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Ride-hailing is a sustainable transportation paradigm where riders access door-to-door traveling services through a mobile phone application, which has attracted a colossal amount of usage. There are two major planning tasks in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Dacheng Wen , Yupeng Li , Francis C. M. Lau

In dynamic ride-sharing systems, intelligent repositioning of idle vehicles enables service providers to maximize vehicle utilization and minimize request rejection rates as well as customer waiting times. In current practice, this task is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Martin Pouls , Anne Meyer , Nitin Ahuja

Stochastic matching is the stochastic version of the well-known matching problem, which consists in maximizing the rewards of a matching under a set of probability distributions associated with the nodes and edges. In most stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Yuya Hikima , Yasunori Akagi , Hideaki Kim

Car-sharing issue is a popular research field in sharing economy. In this paper, we investigate the car-sharing relocation problem (CSRP) under uncertain demands. Normally, the real customer demands follow complicating probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Xiaoming Li , Chun Wang , Xiao Huang

Understanding city-scale vehicular mobility and trip patterns is essential to addressing many problems, from transportation and pollution to public safety, among others. Using spatio-temporal analysis of vehicular mobility, promising…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Roozbeh Ketabi , Babak Alipour , Ahmed Helmy

Shared mobility redefines urban transportation, offering economic and environmental benefits by reducing pollution and urban congestion. However, in the post-pandemic era, the shared mobility sector is grappling with a crisis of trust,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tian Siyuan , Dai Renjie , Wang Junhao , He Zhengxiao

The Ride-Pool Matching Problem (RMP) is central to on-demand ride-pooling services, where vehicles must be matched with multiple requests while adhering to service constraints such as pickup delays, detour limits, and vehicle capacity. Most…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hao Jiang , Yixing Xu , Pradeep Varakantham

The on-demand ride-hailing industry has experienced rapid growth, transforming transportation norms worldwide. Despite improvements in efficiency over traditional taxi services, significant challenges remain, including drivers' strategic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Yunpeng Li , Antonis Dimakis , Costas A. Courcoubetis

The rapid expansion of ride-sourcing services such as Uber, Lyft, and Didi Chuxing has fundamentally reshaped urban transportation by offering flexible, on-demand mobility via mobile applications. Despite their convenience, these platforms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Matej Jusup , Kenan Zhang , Zhiyuan Hu , Barna Pásztor , Andreas Krause , Francesco Corman

Bike-sharing systems play a crucial role in easing traffic congestion and promoting healthier lifestyles. However, ensuring their reliability and user acceptance requires effective strategies for rebalancing bikes. This study introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiaqi Liang , Defeng Liu , Sanjay Dominik Jena , Andrea Lodi , Thibaut Vidal

In todays increasing world, it is very important to have good hailing services like Ola, Uber, and Rapido as it is very essential for our daily transportation. Users often face difficulties in choosing the most appropriate and efficient…

The classic online stochastic matching problem typically requires immediate and irrevocable matching decisions. However, in many modern decentralized systems such as real-time ride-hailing and distributed cloud computing, the primary…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sara Ahmadian , Edith Cohen , Mohammad Roghani

Large ride-hailing platforms, such as DiDi, Uber and Lyft, connect tens of thousands of vehicles in a city to millions of ride demands throughout the day, providing great promises for improving transportation efficiency through the tasks of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Xiaocheng Tang , Fan Zhang , Zhiwei Qin , Yansheng Wang , Dingyuan Shi , Bingchen Song , Yongxin Tong , Hongtu Zhu , Jieping Ye

This paper studies a large-scale ride-matching problem with a large number of travelers who are either drivers with vehicles or riders looking for sharing vehicles. Drivers can match riders that have similar itineraries and share the same…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Jing Fu , Lele Zhang , Zhiyuan Liu

The proliferation of ride sharing systems is a major drive in the advancement of autonomous and electric vehicle technologies. This paper considers the joint routing, battery charging, and pricing problem faced by a profit-maximizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Berkay Turan , Ramtin Pedarsani , Mahnoosh Alizadeh

Problem definition: In many matching markets, some agents are fully flexible, while others only accept a subset of jobs. For example, ridesharing drivers can specify on the platform the destinations they are willing to accept. Conventional…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Chiwei Yan , Francisco Castro , Peter Frazier , Hongyao Ma , Hamid Nazerzadeh

Ridepooling services require efficient optimization algorithms to simultaneously plan routes and pool users in shared rides. We consider a static dial-a-ride problem (DARP) where a series of origin-destination requests have to be assigned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Daniela Gaul , Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr

The aim of the bi-objective multimodal car-sharing problem (BiO-MMCP) is to determine the optimal mode of transport assignment for trips and to schedule the routes of available cars and users whilst minimizing cost and maximizing user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Miriam Enzi , Sophie N. Parragh , Jakob Puchinger

We propose a centralized transportation system that integrates public transit with ridesharing to provide multimodal transportation. At each time interval, the system receives a set of personal drivers, designated drivers, and public…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Qian-Ping Gu , Jiajian Leo Liang

We initiate the study of distortion in stable matching. Concretely, we aim to design algorithms that have limited access to the agents' cardinal preferences and compute stable matchings of high quality with respect to some aggregate…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Georgios Kalantzis