The GRAAL of carpooling: GReen And sociAL optimization from crowd-sourced data

Carpooling, i.e. the sharing of vehicles to reach common destinations, is often performed to reduce costs and pollution. Recent work on carpooling takes into account, besides mobility matches, also social aspects and, more generally, non-monetary incentives. In line with this, the authors present GRAAL, a data-driven methodology for GReen And sociAL carpooling. GRAAL optimizes a carpooling system not only by minimizing the number of cars needed at the city level, but also by maximizing the enjoyability of people sharing a trip. The authors introduce a measure of enjoyability based on people’s interests, social links, and tendency to connect to people with similar or dissimilar interests. GRAAL computes the enjoyability within a set of users from crowd-sourced data, and then uses it on real world datasets to optimize a weighted linear combination of number of cars and enjoyability. To tune this weight, and to investigate the users’ interest on the social aspects of carpooling, the authors conducted an online survey on potential carpooling users. The authors present the results of applying GRAAL on real world crowd-sourced data from the cities of Rome and San Francisco. Computational results are presented from both the city and the user perspective. Using the crowd-sourced weight, GRAAL is able to significantly reduce the number of cars needed, while keeping a high level of enjoyability on the tested data-set. From the user perspective, the authors show how the entire per-car distribution of enjoyability is increased with respect to the baselines.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2017.02.025
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968090X17300657
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/0968090X
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Berlingerio, Michele
  • Ghaddar, Bissan
  • Guidotti, Riccardo
  • Pascale, Alessandra
  • Sassi, Andrea
• Publication Date: 2017-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 20-36
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
  • Volume: 80
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0968-090X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0968090X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carpools; Crowdsourcing; Methodology; Optimization; Social factors; Surveys
• Uncontrolled Terms: Multi-objective programming
• Geographic Terms: Rome (Italy); San Francisco (California)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01639312
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 27 2017 4:10PM