Share-a-Cab: Scalable Clustering Taxi Group Ride Stand From Huge Geolocation Data

Facebook Ride Connect : Share

Ride Connect is a tool integrated into the social networking site Facebook’s (www.Facebook.com) event planning feature. Ride Connect helps people coordinate transportation to specific events. We chose to focus on undergraduate students because changes in their attitudes and habits towards shared transportation will lead to a sustainable increase in public transportation (PT) use. Ride Connect e...

Taxi and Ride Sharing: A Dynamic Dial-a-Ride Problem with Money as an Incentive

This paper deals with a combinatorial optimization problem that models situations of both dynamic ridesharing and taxi-sharing. Passengers who want to share a taxi or a ride, use an app to specify their current location, destination and further information such as the earliest departure time, the latest arrival time and the maximum cost they are willing to pay for the ride. Car owners also spec...

Hail a Cab or Ride a Bike? A Travel Time Comparison of Taxi and Bicycle-Sharing Systems in New York City

A Scalable Algorithm for Clustering Sequential Data

Many scienti c and commercial domains have seen an enormous growth of data in recent years. Such data sets have inherent sequential nature. The clustering of such data is useful for various purposes. Over the years, many methods have been developed for clustering objects according to their similarity. However, in contexts of sequential data these methods tend to have a computational complexity ...

The Share-a-Ride Problem: People and parcels sharing taxis

New city logistics approaches are needed to ensure efficient urban mobility for both people and goods. Usually, these are handled independently in dedicated networks. This paper considers conceptual and mathematical models in which people and parcels are handled in an integrated way by the same taxi network. From a city perspective, this system has a potential to alleviate urban congestion and ...