Ridesharing for Carsharing Service Provider: Driver and Pedestrian Route Matching

Abstract

Nowadays there are a lot of car sharing service provider have been appeared in Russian market as well as in the world. Car sharing become popular since a person can have comfortable and quick transportation means in the city. This transportation means allow him/her to reach destinations without owning a private vehicle. However, sometimes for the car sharing user it is not possible to find a car in nearest location. In this case the car sharing company can propose customers who goes to the same destination to share the ride together with the travel expenses. The paper proposes an approach to matching of driver and pedestrian routes based on predefined constraints such as detours and additional time the customers are going to spend for ride sharing.

Keywords

• ridesharing
• carsharing
• matching
• heuristic