scholarly journals The Rise of Ride Sharing in Urban Transport: Threat or Opportunity?

10.5772/66918 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamer Çetin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Transport ◽  
Ride Sharing

Urban Transport

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José van
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Ride Sharing ◽  
The World ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Selection Mechanisms

Platformization affects the entire urban transport sector, effectively blurring the division between private and public transport modalities; existing public–private arrangements have started to shift as a result. This chapter analyzes and discusses the emergence of a platform ecology for urban transport, focusing on two central public values: the quality of urban transport and the organization of labor and workers’ rights. Using the prism of platform mechanisms, it analyzes how the sector of urban transport is changing societal organization in various urban areas across the world. Datafication has allowed numerous new actors to offer their bike-, car-, or ride-sharing services online; selection mechanisms help match old and new complementors with passengers. Similarly, new connective platforms are emerging, most prominently transport network companies such as Uber and Lyft that offer public and private transport options, as well as new platforms offering integrated transport services, often referred to as “mobility as a service.”

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Ride-sharing Dispatching and Repositioning

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiwei (Tony) Qin ◽  
Xiaocheng Tang ◽  
Yan Jiao ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Chenxi Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Ride Sharing ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Computer Interaction

In this demo, we will present a simulation-based human-computer interaction of deep reinforcement learning in action on order dispatching and driver repositioning for ride-sharing.  Specifically, we will demonstrate through several specially designed domains how we use deep reinforcement learning to train agents (drivers) to have longer optimization horizon and to cooperate to achieve higher objective values collectively. 

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