Ridesourcing systems: A framework and review

H Wang, H Yang - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
With the rapid development and popularization of mobile and wireless communication
technologies, ridesourcing companies have been able to leverage internet-based platforms …

Does ride-hailing increase or decrease vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT)? A simulation approach for Santiago de Chile

A Tirachini, A Gomez-Lobo - International journal of sustainable …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Many authors have pointed out the importance of determining the impact of ride-hailing
(ridesourcing) on vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT), and thus on transport externalities like …

Integrating ridesourcing services with public transit: An evaluation of traveler responses combining revealed and stated preference data

X Yan, J Levine, X Zhao - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Inspired by the success of private ridesourcing companies such as Uber and Lyft, transit
agencies have started to consider integrating ridesourcing services (ie on-demand, app …

A two-phase optimization model for the demand-responsive customized bus network design

D Huang, Y Gu, S Wang, Z Liu, W Zhang - Transportation Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new optimization model for the network design problem of the
demand-responsive customized bus (CB). The proposed model consists of two phases …

Optimal design of ride-pooling as on-demand feeder services

W Fan, W Gu, M Xu - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2024 - Elsevier
The technology-enabled ride-pooling (RP) is designed as an on-demand feeder service to
connect remote areas to transit terminals (or activity centers). We propose the so-called …

Economies and diseconomies of scale in on-demand ridepooling systems

A Fielbaum, A Tirachini, J Alonso-Mora - Economics of Transportation, 2023 - Elsevier
We analyse the sources of economies and diseconomies of scale in On-Demand
Ridepooling (ODRP), disentangling three effects: when demand grows, average costs are …

Pricing and penalty/compensation strategies of a taxi-hailing platform

F He, X Wang, X Lin, X Tang - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2018 - Elsevier
Smartphone-based taxi-hailing applications (apps) bring about significant changes to the
taxi market in recent years. As platforms that connect customers and taxi drivers, taxi-hailing …

Mobility service design via joint optimization of transit networks and demand-responsive services

Y Liu, Y Ouyang - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a modeling framework to design an integrated mobility service system
that is composed of a local demand-responsive transportation (DRT) component and a fixed …

Coordinating ride-sourcing and public transport services with a reinforcement learning approach

S Feng, P Duan, J Ke, H Yang - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Combining ride-sourcing and public transit services (with ride-sourcing service to address
the first/last-mile issues) can bring many benefits, such as saving passengers' trip fares …

Analysis of multi-modal commute behavior with feeding and competing ridesplitting services

Z Zhu, X Qin, J Ke, Z Zheng, H Yang - … Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2020 - Elsevier
Public transit is an essential travel mode in many urban areas. Emerging dynamic
ridesplitting programs provided by transportation network companies (TNCs) can be a …