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Spatiotemporal variability of ride-pooling potential – Half a year New York City experiment

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  • Shulika, Olha
  • Bujak, Michal
  • Ghasemi, Farnoud
  • Kucharski, Rafal

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Ride-pooling systems, despite being an appealing urban mobility mode, still struggle to gain momentum. While we know the significance of critical mass in reaching system sustainability, less is known about the spatiotemporal patterns of system performance. Here, we use 1.5 million NYC taxi trips (sampled over a six-month period) and experiment to understand how well they could be served with pooled services. We use an offline utility-driven ride-pooling algorithm and observe the pooling potential with six performance indicators: mileage reductions, travellers' utility gains, share of pooled rides, occupancy, detours, and potential fleet reduction. We report distributions and temporal profiles of about 35 thousand experiments covering weekdays, weekends, evenings, mornings, and nights. We report complex spatial patterns, with gains concentrated in the core of the network and costs concentrated on the peripheries. The greatest potential shifts from the North in the morning to the Central and South in the afternoon. Offering pooled rides at the fare 32% lower than private ride-hailing seems to be sufficient to attract pooling yet dynamically adjusting it to the demand level and spatial pattern may be efficient. The patterns observed in NYC were replicated on smaller datasets in Chicago and Washington, DC, the occupancy grows with the demand with similar trends.

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  • Shulika, Olha & Bujak, Michal & Ghasemi, Farnoud & Kucharski, Rafal, 2024. "Spatiotemporal variability of ride-pooling potential – Half a year New York City experiment," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:jotrge:v:114:y:2024:i:c:s0966692323002399
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103767
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