Scaling Law of Urban Ride Sharing

Sharing rides could drastically improve the efficiency of car and taxi transportation. Unleashing such potential, however, requires understanding how urban parameters affect the fraction of individual trips that can be shared, a quantity that we call shareability. Using data on millions of taxi trip...

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Main Authors: Tachet des Combes, Remi, Santi, Paolo, Szell, Michael, Ratti, Carlo, Sagarra. Oleguer
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SENSEable City Laboratory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110085
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