3 papers
cs.MA2024
Optimizing Ride-Pooling Revenue: Pricing Strategies and Driver-Traveller Dynamics
Usman Akhtar, Farnoud Ghasemi, Rafal Kucharski
Ride-pooling, to gain momentum, needs to be attractive for all the parties involved. This includes also drivers, who are naturally reluctant to serve pooled rides. This can be cont…
cs.MA2023
Ride Acceptance Behaviour Investigation of Ride-sourcing Drivers Through Agent-based Simulation
Farnoud Ghasemi, Peyman Ashkrof, Rafal Kucharski
Ride-sourcing platforms such as Uber and Lyft offer drivers (i.e., platform suppliers) considerable freedom of choice in multiple aspects. At the operational level, drivers can fre…
cs.MA2023
Dynamics of the Ride-Sourcing Market: A Coevolutionary Model of Competition between Two-Sided Mobility Platforms
Farnoud Ghasemi, Arkadiusz Drabicki, Rafał Kucharski
There is a fierce competition between two-sided mobility platforms (e.g., Uber and Lyft) fueled by massive subsidies, yet the underlying dynamics and interactions between the compe…