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Drivers, Riders, and Service Providers : The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Mobility

It is widely believed that ride sharing, the practice of sharing a car such that more than one person travels in the car during a journey, has the potential to significantly reduce traffic by filling up cars more efficiently. We introduce a model in which individuals may share rides for a certain fee, paid by the rider(s) to the driver through a ride-sharing platform. Collective decision making is modeled as an anonymous nonatomic game with a finite set of strategies and payoff functions among individuals who are heterogeneous in their income. We examine how ride sharing is organized and how traffic and ownership are affected if a platform, which chooses the seat rental price to maximize either revenue or welfare, is introduced to a population. We find that the ratio of ownership to usage costs determines how ride sharing is organized. If this ratio is low, ride sharing is offered as a peer-to-peer (P2P) service, and if this ratio is high, ride sharing is offered as a business-to-customer (B2C) service. In the P2P case, rides are initiated by drivers only when the drivers need to fulfill their own transportation requirements. In the B2C case, cars are driven all the time by full-time drivers taking rides even if these are not motivated by their private needs. We show that, although the introduction of ride sharing may reduce car ownership, it can lead to an increase in traffic. We also show that traffic and ownership may increase as the ownership cost increases and that a revenue-maximizing platform might prefer a situation in which cars are driven with only a few seats occupied, causing high traffic. We contrast these results with those obtained for a social welfare-maximizing platform.

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Judul Seri

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; Vol.68 No.1 January 2022

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

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Deskripsi Fisik

p. 123-142

Bahasa

English

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NONE

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

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Subjek

TRANSPORTATION
SOCIAL WELFARE
EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS
RIDE SHARING
SHARING ECONOMY
NONATOMIC GAMES

Info Detail Spesifik

https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3909

Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Saif Benjaafar, Harald Bernhard, Costas Courcoubetis, Michail Kanakakis, Spyridon Papafragko

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