An open-data approach for quantifying the potential of taxi ridesharing

Benjamin Barann, Daniel Beverungen, Oliver Müller

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    Abstract

    Taxi ridesharing (TRS) is an advanced form of urban transportation that matches separate ride requests with similar spatio-temporal characteristics to a jointly used taxi. As collaborative consumption, TRS saves customers money, enables taxi companies to economize use of their resources, and lowers greenhouse gas emissions. We develop a one-to-one TRS approach that matches rides with similar start and end points. We evaluate our approach by analyzing an open dataset of > 5 million taxi trajectories in New York City. Our empirical analysis reveals that the proposed approach matches up to 48.34% of all taxi rides, saving 2,892,036 km of travel distance, 231,362.89 l of gas, and 532,134.64 kg of CO2 emissions per week. Compared to many-to-many TRS approaches, our approach is competitive, simpler to implement and operate, and poses less rigid assumptions on data availability and customer acceptance.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TidsskriftDecision Support Systems
    ISSN0167-9236
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 4 maj 2017

    Emneord

    • Shared mobility
    • Sustainability
    • Open data
    • Transportation
    • Collaborative consumption
    • Taxi ridesharing

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