Seamless integration of ride-sharing and public transit may offer fast, reliable, and affordable transfer to and from transit stations in suburban areas thereby enhancing mobility of residents. We investigate the potential benefits of such a system, as well as the ride-matching technology required to support it, by means of an extensive computational study.

We investigate the potential benets of introducing meeting points in a ride-sharing system. With meeting points, riders can be picked up and dropped o either at their origin and destination or at a meeting point that is within a certain distance from their origin or destination. The increased exibility results in additional feasible matches between drivers and riders, and allows a driver to be matched with multiple riders without increasing the number of stops the driver needs to make. We design and implement an algorithm that optimally matches drivers and riders in large-scale ridesharing systems with meeting points. We perform an extensive simulation study to assess the benets of meeting points. The results demonstrate that meeting points can signicantly increase the number of matched participants as well as the system-wide driving distance savings in a ride-sharing system.

We investigate the potential benets of introducing meeting points in a ride-sharing system. With meeting points, riders can be picked up and dropped o either at their origin and destination or at a meeting point that is within a certain distance from their origin or destination. The increased exibility results in additional feasible matches between drivers and riders, and allows a driver to be matched with multiple riders without increasing the number of stops the driver needs to make. We design and implement an algorithm that optimally matches drivers and riders in large-scale ridesharing systems with meeting points. We perform an extensive simulation study to assess the benets of meeting points. The results demonstrate that meeting points can signicantly increase the number of matched participants as well as the system-wide driving distance savings in a ride-sharing system.

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