Model of information system for combined ride-sourcing service

摘要

Efficiency enhancement for urban mobility is one of the key udelements in smart city conceptions. Nowadays, there is udsignificant underutilization of vehicle capacities in the udcase of individual vehicles, taxis, and vehicles, especially udfor food or small package delivery services. The motivation udof our research is to reveal opportunities for so-called uddynamic, combined ridesourcing service. Passengers and udcertain goods sharing the same destination can be transported udin shared vehicles. Since such novel service concepts are udbased on new forms of information management, the research udquestion is: how the information systems and the operations udare to be modeled in order to create the service. In such a udservice, demands and capacities are coordinated by dynamic udprices based on real-time data. The logical correspondences udof pricing are also revealed. During model development, we udconsidered autonomous vehicles as well, because their udemergence requires fundamentally new perational approaches. udAccordingly, the developed information management method can udbe adopted for services based on autonomous vehicles. The udresults provide a basis for innovation and development of udthese services.