The rise of research into shared mobility systems reflects emerging challenges, such as
rising traffic congestion, rising oil prices and rising environmental concern. The operations …

Dynamic ride-share systems aim to bring together travelers with similar itineraries and time
schedules on short-notice. These systems may provide significant societal and …

The trend toward shorter delivery lead times reduces operational efficiency and increases
transportation costs for Internet retailers. However, mobile technology creates new …

Taxi ridesharing can be of significant social and environmental benefit, eg by saving energy
consumption and satisfying people's commute needs. Despite the great potential, taxi …

We investigate the potential benefits of introducing meeting points in a ride-sharing system.
With meeting points, riders can be picked up and dropped off either at their origin and …

We proposed and developed a taxi-sharing system that accepts taxi passengers' real-time
ride requests sent from smart phones and schedules proper taxis to pick up them via ride …

Dynamic ride-sharing systems enable people to share rides and increase the efficiency of
urban transportation by connecting riders and drivers on short notice. Automated systems …

This paper is the first part of a comprehensive survey on pickup and delivery problems.
Basically, two problem classes can be distinguished. The first class, discussed in this paper …

With the rising fuel costs, ride sharing is becoming a common mode of transportation.
Sharing taxis which has been prominent in several develo** countries is also becoming …

As a consequence of the sharing economy attaining more popularity, there has been a shift
toward shared-use mobility services in recent years, especially those that encourage users …