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We are in the midst of a technology-driven transformation of the urban mobility landscape. However, unfortunately these new innovations are still dominated by car-centric personal mobility, which leads to concerns such as environmental…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Danushka Edirimanna , Hins Hu , Samitha Samaranayake

The literature on transportation network companies (TNCs), also known as ride-hailing services, has often characterized these service providers as predominantly substitutive to public transit (PT). However, as TNC markets expand and mature,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhicheng Jin , Xiaotong Sun , Li Zhen , Weihua Gu , Huizhao Tu

Ride-pooling systems, despite being an appealing urban mobility mode, still struggle to gain momentum. While we know the significance of critical mass in reaching system sustainability, less is known about the spatiotemporal patterns of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-12-15 Olha Shulika , Michal Bujak , Farnoud Ghasemi , Rafal Kucharski

The spread of COVID-19 has been a major disruptive force in people's everyday lives and mobility behavior. The demand for on-demand ride services, such as taxis and ridehailing has been specifically impacted, given both restrictions in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Maher Said , Jason Soria , Amanda Stathopoulos

Road transport sector is found to be one of the major emitters, and responsible for serious air pollution and huge pubic health losses. One important parameter for determining the consequences of transport demand shocks for the…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2016-12-09 Ling-yun He , Li Liu

With the booming economy in China, many researches have pointed out that the improvement of regional transportation infrastructure among other factors had an important effect on economic growth. Utilizing a large-scale dataset which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Bin Li , Song Gao , Yunlei Liang , Yuhao Kang , Timothy Prestby , Yuqi Gao , Runmou Xiao

Shared mobility-on-demand services are expanding rapidly in cities around the world. As a prominent example, app-based ridesourcing is becoming an integral part of many urban transportation ecosystems. Despite the centrality, limited public…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-02 J Soria , Y Chen , A Stathopoulos

Autonomous taxi services represent a transformative advancement in urban mobility, offering safety, efficiency, and round-the-clock operations. While existing literature has explored user acceptance of autonomous taxis through stated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yutong Cai , Hua Wang

With the widespread adoption of mobility-on-demand (MoD) services and the advancements in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology, the research interest into the AVs based MoD (AMoD) services has grown immensely. Often agent-based simulation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Arslan Ali Syed , Yunfei Zhang , Klaus Bogenberger

The increasing use of private vehicles for transportation in cities results in a growing demand for parking space and road network capacity. In many densely populated urban areas, however, the capacity of existing infrastructure is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-08-09 David Fiedler , Michal Čáp , Michal Čertický

Ride-pooling, also known as ride-sharing, shared ride-hailing, or microtransit, is a service wherein passengers share rides. This service can reduce costs for both passengers and operators and reduce congestion and environmental impacts. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Farnoosh Namdarpour , Joseph Y. J. Chow

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

Autonomous Mobility On Demand (MOD) systems can utilize fleet management strategies in order to provide a high customer quality of service (QoS). Previous works on autonomous MOD systems have developed methods for rebalancing single…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Justin Miller , Jonathan P. How

With the proliferation of ride-hailing services, curb space in urban areas has become highly congested due to the massive passenger pick-ups and drop-offs. Particularly during peak hours, the massive ride-hailing vehicles waiting to drop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Yao Deng , Zhi-Chun Li , Sean Qian , Wei Ma

In autonomous Mobility on Demand (MOD) systems, customers request rides from a fleet of shared vehicles that can be automatically positioned in response to customer demand. Recent approaches to MOD systems have focused on environments where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Justin Miller , Jonathan P. How

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

Ridesourcing platforms recently introduced the ``schedule a ride'' service where passengers may reserve (book-ahead) a ride in advance of their trip. Reservations give platforms precise information that describes the start time and location…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Cesar N. Yahia , Gustavo de Veciana , Stephen D. Boyles , Jean Abou Rahal , Michael Stecklein

To reduce passenger waiting time and driver search friction, ride-hailing companies need to accurately forecast spatio-temporal demand and supply-demand gap. However, due to spatio-temporal dependencies pertaining to demand and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 M. H. Rahman , S. M. Rifaat

Drive-by sensing (i.e. vehicle-based mobile sensing) is an emerging data collection paradigm that leverages vehicle mobilities to scan a city at low costs. It represents a positive social externality of urban transport activities. Bus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Wen Ji , Ke Han , Tao Liu

Mobility-on-demand (MoD) systems, especially ride-hailing systems, have seen tremendous growth in recent years. These systems provide user-centric mobility services, whose users expect a high level of convenience. Waiting for a response…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Florian Dandl , Roman Engelhardt , Klaus Bogenberger