Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
11-2020
Abstract
On-demand ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft have gained tremendous popularity over the past decade, largely driven by the omnipresence of mobile devices. Ride-sharing services can provide economic and environmental benefits such as reducing traffic congestion and vehicle emissions. Multi-hop ride-sharing enables passengers to transfer between vehicles within a single trip, which significantly extends the benefits of ride-sharing and provides ride opportunities that are not possible otherwise. Despite its advantages, offering real-time multi-hop ride-sharing services at large scale is a challenging computational task due to the large combination of vehicles and passenger transfer points. To address these challenges, we propose exact and approximation algorithms that are scalable and achieve real-time responses for highly dynamic ride-sharing scenarios in large metropolitan areas. Our experiments on real-world datasets show the benefits of multi-hop ride-sharing services and demonstrate that our proposed algorithms are more than two orders of magnitude faster than the state-of-the-art. Our approximation algorithms offer a comparable trip quality to our exact algorithm, while improving the ride-sharing request matching time by another order of magnitude.
Keywords
Multi-hop, Real-time, Ride-sharing, Road networks
Discipline
Theory and Algorithms
Research Areas
Data Science and Engineering
Publication
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Virtual, Online, 2020 Nov 3-6
First Page
215
Last Page
226
Identifier
10.1145/3397536.3422235
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
New York
Citation
XU, Yixin; KULIK, Lars; BOROVICA‐GAJIC, Renata; ALDWYISH, Abdullah; and QI, Jianzhong.
Highly efficient and scalable multi-hop ride-sharing. (2020). Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Virtual, Online, 2020 Nov 3-6. 215-226.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8305
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/3397536.3422235