A new look at the morning commute with household shared-ride: How does school location play a role?

Abstract

Recent studies examined the households' trip-timing decisions where adults have to drive their children to school. These studies focus on the cases where school is near workplace. However, different school locations can affect travels and activity patterns significantly. This study re-looks at the household shared-ride problem where school is near home. It is found that the resulting dynamic commuting equilibrium has very different properties, which have been examined and discussed accordingly. Three management strategies have been proposed to reduce total travel cost, and efficiencies of these strategies are evaluated and compared.

Unlock the Sharing Economy: The Case of the Parking Sector for Recurrent Commuting Trips

“…This highlights the importance to appropriately explore the pricing strategies of the parking sharing platform operator. In summary, this study improves and enhances our understanding of the parking sharing, pricing, and management, and also enriches the literature on the two-sided markets, where ride sharing/sourcing has attracted much more attention (Agatz et al, 2012;Wang et al, 2016;Zha et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2018;Bai et al, 2019).…”

Impact of Capacity Drop on Commuting Systems under Uncertainty

“…Latterly, Qian et al [14,15] considered various impact factors including parking capacity allocations, parking fees and access times for traffic congestion mitigation, and total social costs reduction. In addition, extensions of bottlenecks could also be found like day-to-day travel behavior evolution [16], preference of autonomous vehicle users [17], and travel choice of shared-riders [18,19]. Highly correlated with the work in this paper, Fosgerau and Small [20] investigated the bottleneck model with variable capacity in the rush hour in the hypercongestion environment.…”

Managing commute traffic : from parking provision with ride-sourcing to work hours arrangements considering household travels

“…Moreover, Zhang et al (2017) revisited the household travels with a different school location choice. In these papers, it is found that the appropriate schedule coordination between school and work start time can significantly reduce the total travel cost.…”

“…However, the work schedule choices were scarcely discussed in these household studies. Only in Zhang et al (2017) the differentiated school and work schedules were examined preliminarily without the consideration of productivity effect. Therefore, this thesis fills the research gap to examine how the commuters with multiple trip purposes behave in their work schedule choices.…”

“…When considering household travels, schedule coordination has been discussed in the literature, and it is found that proper coordination between work and school schedule can achieve minimization of total commute cost (Liu et al, 2016b;Zhang et al, 2017).…”