A ridesplitting market equilibrium model with utility-based compensation pricing

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Beitragende

  • Qing Long Lu - , Technische Universität München (Autor:in)
  • Moeid Qurashi - , Technische Universität München (Autor:in)
  • Constantinos Antoniou - , Technische Universität München (Autor:in)

Abstract

The paper develops a theoretic equilibrium model for ridesplitting markets with specific considerations of origin-destination demand patterns, competition with other transport modes, characteristics of en route matching, and spatial allocation of ridesplitting vehicles, to adequately portray the intertwined relationships between the endogenous variables and decisions. The operation property of the market under distance-based unified pricing is analyzed through the response of system performance indicators to the decisions. Moreover, a gradient descent algorithm is derived to find optimal operating strategies in the monopoly scenario and social optimum scenario. Leveraging the tight connection between trip’s utility and level of service (LoS), the paper then proposes a utility-based compensation pricing method to alleviate the inequity issue in ridesplitting, which results from the variance in waiting time and detour time and the implementation of unified pricing. Specifically, the trip fare of those with an initial utility smaller than a threshold will be compensated following a predefined compensation function. We compare its effectiveness and influence in different scenarios through numerical experiments at Munich. The results show that the proposed pricing method can improve the LoS and equity without losing any profit and welfare, and can even achieve increments in maximum profit and social welfare under certain conditions.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)439-474
Seitenumfang36
FachzeitschriftTransportation
Jahrgang51
Ausgabenummer2
Frühes Online-Datum28 Sept. 2022
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Apr. 2024
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-0135-6450/work/161890862

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Equity, Level of services, Market equilibrium, Pricing, Ridesplitting

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