Analysis and evaluation of the slugging form of ridesharing
Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on advances …, 2013•dl.acm.org
Ridesharing is a promising method to address transportation problems such as traffic jams
and parking. Although traditional carpooling and taxi ridesharing have been investigated by
many, slugging, as a simple yet effective form of ridesharing, has not been well-studied. In
this paper, we formally define the slugging problem and its generalization. We provide
proofs of their computational time complexity. For the variants of the slugging problem that
are constrained by the vehicle capacity and travel time delay, we prove NP-completeness …
and parking. Although traditional carpooling and taxi ridesharing have been investigated by
many, slugging, as a simple yet effective form of ridesharing, has not been well-studied. In
this paper, we formally define the slugging problem and its generalization. We provide
proofs of their computational time complexity. For the variants of the slugging problem that
are constrained by the vehicle capacity and travel time delay, we prove NP-completeness …
Ridesharing is a promising method to address transportation problems such as traffic jams and parking. Although traditional carpooling and taxi ridesharing have been investigated by many, slugging, as a simple yet effective form of ridesharing, has not been well-studied. In this paper, we formally define the slugging problem and its generalization. We provide proofs of their computational time complexity. For the variants of the slugging problem that are constrained by the vehicle capacity and travel time delay, we prove NP-completeness and also propose some effective heuristics. In addition, we discuss the dynamic slugging problem. We conducted experiments using a GPS trajectory data set containing 60 thousand trips. The experimental results show that our proposed heuristics can achieve close-to-optimal performances, which means as much as 59% saving in vehicle travel distance.