Minimum Cost Matching for Autonomous Carsharing

A Survey Study Measuring People's Preferences Towards Automated and Non-Automated Ridesplitting

“…Participants prioritized cost and time when considering ridesplitting, no matter if the vehicle was automated or non-automated. This further supports previous findings (Deakin et al, 2010;Thaithatkul et al, 2015;Hanna et al, 2016). Future studies should be conducted with a larger population from a variety of geographical regions and should use new methods to ensure consistency, accuracy, and validity of participants' responses.…”

“…Survey questions concerning people's ridesplitting usage and perception of different transportation modes were formulated based on previous studies (Abraham et al, 2016), (Ciari & Axhausen, 2013), (Dias et al, 2017), (Morales Sarriera et al, 2017), (Thaithatkul et al, 2015). Past research highlighted the importance of time, cost, and gender in choosing a ridesplit (Hanna et al, 2016;Morales Sarriera et al, 2017;Thaithatkul et al, 2015), hence additional survey questions were included to compare these aspects. Since the main goal of this study was to identify differences in people's preferences towards AR and non-AR, a set of important statements (factors) that might affect people's preference were used (Ciari & Axhausen, 2013), and participants were asked to rate them in both AR and non-AR settings.…”

“…Given that ridesplitting services revolve around users, people's attitudes towards them is of interest. Past research has identified which aspects encourage ridesplitting, including costs, personal preference (Thaithatkul, Seo, Kusakabe, & Asakura, 2015), wait time (Deakin, Frick, & Shively, 2010;Hanna, Albert, Chen, & Stone, 2016), safety, and security (Deakin et al, 2010;Thaithatkul et al, 2015). Other researchers (Morales Sarriera et al, 2017) reported that social interactions were important in ridesplitting, as well as riders' prejudice with respect to age, social class, and race.…”

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“…The index for station 1 is the (dis-)utility of the longest waiting passenger in this station including the time it takes for the nearest vehicle to get to the station. It will take 1 minute for the nearest vehicle to get to station 1 (vehicle 2), thus the index will be equal u(5 + 1) = u (6). The second station index is u(4+ 4) = u (8).…”

“…Such methods may sort the stations by some predicted criteria such as available vehicles, waiting times etc. (Kek 16 ), by sending vehicles from stations with vehicle surplus to stations with vehicle deficit (Andreasson 1,13,14,15 , Hanna et al 6 ), or by indexing of the stations 18,19 . In this article we focus on reactive redistribution strategies as well as proactive redistributions.…”