Mathematical Models on Smart Ride Sharing

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K14045
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Asakura Yasuo 東京工業大学, 環境・社会理工学院, 教授 (80144319)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 交通工学 / シェアリング / 相乗り / 交通行動分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have been carrying advanced mobile communication instruments such as smart phones with the function of location identification, communication and search. New transport services appear in market in which passengers and drivers confirm each other by using social network services and then make matching among them. Matching problems of multiple passengers and/or passengers and drivers were not investigated in the studies on conventional sharing transport and on-demand public transport. This study challenges to investigate mathematical formulation of matching problems in smart ride sharing transport, and to develop analytical methods for those matching models. Based on the one-to-one roommate matching problem, this study has proposed a static matching model of two passengers considering their personal preference for sharing a ride. We have also proposed a social optimum ride share transport systems that would achieve effective transport services with smaller number of vehicles.

Free Research Field

土木計画学・交通工学