Sharing the ride: A paired-trip analysis of UberPool and Chicago Transit Authority services in Chicago, Illinois

Schwieterman, Joseph P; Smith, Connie L.

doi:10.1016/j.retrec.2018.10.003

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“…In this research, we focus on the ridesourcing services, including the possibility of ridesplitting (Li et al 2019), meaning to encompass on-demand shared-mobility services. We adopt the term ridesharing to refer to this kind of services: this helps to position this paper in line both with established Transportation literature for on-demand shared-mobility services (see, e.g, Alonso-Mora et al (2017a), Chen et al (2017a), Di et al (2018), Lei et al (2019), Simonetto et al (2019), Wang et al (2019)), and the recent tendency of ridesourcing providers (e.g., Uber and Lyft) to offer ridesplitting/carpooling services and therefore entering in the ridesharing space (Moody et al 2019, Schwieterman & Smith 2018. The possibility that passengers have to share vehicle routes is heavily exploited in the design of the services proposed in this paper, by dynamically inserting pickup and dropoff requests in the vehicle schedules.…”

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On the needs for MaaS platforms to handle competition in ridesharing mobility

Pandey

Monteil

Gambella

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Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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Ridesharing has been emerging as a new type of mobility. However, the early promises of ridesharing for alleviating congestion in cities may be undermined by a number of challenges, including the growing number of proposed services and the subsequent increasing number of vehicles, as a natural consequence of competition. In this work, we present optimization-based approaches to model cooperation and competition between multiple ridesharing companies, in a real-time on-demand setting. A recent trend relies on solving the integrated combination of Dial-A-Ride Problems (DARP), which compute the cost of assigning incoming requests to vehicle routes, plus Linear Assignment Problems (LAP), which assign vehicles to requests. While the DARPs, are solved at the level of the vehicles of each company, we introduce cooperative and competitive approaches to solve the LAP. The cooperative model, which could make use of Mobility as a Service platforms, is shown to solve the LAP to optimality following closely results from the literature, and limiting the amount of information the companies are required to share. We investigate how a realistic model of competition deviates from this optimality and provide worst case bounds. We evaluate these models with respect to a centralized model on one-week instances of the New York City taxi dataset. Model variants coping with noise in the travel time estimations, bias in the assignment costs, and preferences in the competitive case are also presented and validated. The computational results suggest that cooperation among ridesharing companies can be conducted in such a way to limit the degradation of the level of service with respect to a centralized model. Finally, we argue that the competition can lower the quality of the ridesharing service, especially in the case customer preferences are accommodated.

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On the needs for MaaS platforms to handle competition in ridesharing mobility

Pandey

Monteil

Gambella

et al. 2019

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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“…On the other hand, in comparison with ridesourcing services, the fees of ride splitting platforms such as Lyft Line and UberPool are also cheaper. This is because drivers of ride sourcing services ride their vehicles depending on passengers' requests while routes in ride splitting services are mostly based on the destination of the drivers (Schwieterman and Smith, 2018). Apart from their advantages, sharing economy platforms have caused some market distortions in transportation industry especially in market entrance of Uber.…”

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“…Furthermore, government regulations and tax issues regarding transportation network companies (Sun et al, 2018), the hours that these services are most frequently used (Murphy and Felgon, 2016), environmental (Melo et al, 2019) and medical issues (Hall et al, 2017;Greenwood and Wattal, 2017) have discussed by existing studies in the literature. Technological developments and processes of transportation applications (Zuo et al, 2019) and the differences between ride sourcing and ride splitting network companies have also analysed by some researchers (Gargiulo et al, 2015;Schwieterman and Smith, 2018).…”

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“…(Sharp, 2018;Jin et al, 2018;Young and Farber, 2019;Rayle et al, 2016). Depending on demand, prices of using these services can change (Young and Farber, 2019;Schwieterman and Pelon, 2017;Schwieterman and Smith, 2018) and it becomes more difficult to make a forecast for prices (Rayle et al, 2016). Some different price mechanisms exist in ride sourcing services namely posted price (PP) and double auction.…”

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“…In comparison to traditional taxis, the increase in the number of TNC vehicles had been in larger extent. Moreover, transportation demand of passengers has shifted from public transport to TNCs (Schwieterman and Smith, 2018).…”

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Transport services in the shared economy segment compared to traditional taxi services: the case study of the Czech Republic

Mezuláník¹,

Law²

2019

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This research deals with the arguments within the scientific discussion on the issue of shared economy in the field of passenger transport in the Czech Republic. The main purpose of the research is to compare some ridesharing platforms, namely, Uber, Liftago and Taxify and traditional taxi services regarding their starting rates and a characteristic of the cars that they use. Investigation of the topic shows that starting rates and quality of services of these platforms differ regarding the locations and ride-hailing services. Therefore, analysing various sharing economy platforms in the Czech Republic regarding transportation and finding differences among them might create value addition for sharing economy literature. In this regard, this paper applies a research technique that consists of interviews and direct observation in the provision of transport services. In the research, a primary survey was carried out; In terms of secrecy, scenarios of interviews and cover-stories were prepared to motivate respondents to more open communication. Respondents were providers of transport services in the form of classic taxis, Uber, Liftago and Taxify, the most important providers of passenger taxis in the monitored cities. The research was carried out in 2017/2018 in different cities of the Czech Republic, namely, Prague and Ostrava. The obtained data were processed in the SPSS IBM Statistics program using the methods of descriptive statistics. The results of the research show that in the analysed parameters, the ride-hailing platforms do not provide cheaper services in the monitored markets and that their prices are comparable to those of traditional providers. For this reason, travellers, users and providers of ride-hailing services can benefit from this study by considering the differences that this research proves.

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Sharing the ride: A paired-trip analysis of UberPool and Chicago Transit Authority services in Chicago, Illinois

Cited by 56 publications

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On the needs for MaaS platforms to handle competition in ridesharing mobility

On the needs for MaaS platforms to handle competition in ridesharing mobility

Transport services in the shared economy segment compared to traditional taxi services: the case study of the Czech Republic

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