A Vehicle Ride-Sharing Algorithm Assessing Passenger Satisfaction According to Spatial, Temporal, and Social Behavior Context Based on Real Data Sources

Vehicle ride-sharing commute in smart cities is a service that has changed the way of citizens’ daily life and transportation schedule. Research in vehicle ride sharing aims to provide passengers with a comfortable living and well-being within the city. Ride sharing has a significant role in vehicle...

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Main Authors: Theodoros Anagnostopoulos, Samson Rani Jino Ramson
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2025-05-01
Series:Future Transportation
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description Vehicle ride-sharing commute in smart cities is a service that has changed the way of citizens’ daily life and transportation schedule. Research in vehicle ride sharing aims to provide passengers with a comfortable living and well-being within the city. Ride sharing has a significant role in vehicle transportation services provided to passengers during their daily schedule from a certain origin to a desired destination within smart cities. Combining ride sharing with spatial, temporal, and social context has an impact on passenger satisfaction. In this paper, a vehicle ride-sharing algorithm is introduced, which incorporates certain spatial, temporal, and social behavior context restrictions that are able to provide a satisfactory routing trajectory that serves the daily needs of passengers in the smart city of Athens, Greece. Real data sources were exploited to evaluate certain spatial, temporal, and social matching distance functions, which define specific spatial, temporal, and social matching similarity thresholds of passengers’ social mobility behavior. The proposed algorithm is evaluated experimentally with real data based on specific evaluation metrics assessing its efficiency with regards to certain spatial, temporal, social, capacity, and satisfaction contexts. The evaluation process has an impact on the adoption of the proposed algorithm in vehicle ride-sharing commute in smart cities.
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spelling doaj-art-e3d7672efda44b95a52d83157adc79e82025-08-20T03:27:26ZengMDPI AGFuture Transportation2673-75902025-05-01525610.3390/futuretransp5020056A Vehicle Ride-Sharing Algorithm Assessing Passenger Satisfaction According to Spatial, Temporal, and Social Behavior Context Based on Real Data SourcesTheodoros Anagnostopoulos0Samson Rani Jino Ramson1Department of Business Administration, University of the Aegean, Michalon 8, 821 00 Chios, GreeceGlobalFoundries, 1000 River St, Essex Junction, Vermont, VT 05452, USAVehicle ride-sharing commute in smart cities is a service that has changed the way of citizens’ daily life and transportation schedule. Research in vehicle ride sharing aims to provide passengers with a comfortable living and well-being within the city. Ride sharing has a significant role in vehicle transportation services provided to passengers during their daily schedule from a certain origin to a desired destination within smart cities. Combining ride sharing with spatial, temporal, and social context has an impact on passenger satisfaction. In this paper, a vehicle ride-sharing algorithm is introduced, which incorporates certain spatial, temporal, and social behavior context restrictions that are able to provide a satisfactory routing trajectory that serves the daily needs of passengers in the smart city of Athens, Greece. Real data sources were exploited to evaluate certain spatial, temporal, and social matching distance functions, which define specific spatial, temporal, and social matching similarity thresholds of passengers’ social mobility behavior. The proposed algorithm is evaluated experimentally with real data based on specific evaluation metrics assessing its efficiency with regards to certain spatial, temporal, social, capacity, and satisfaction contexts. The evaluation process has an impact on the adoption of the proposed algorithm in vehicle ride-sharing commute in smart cities.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7590/5/2/56ride-sharing algorithmpassenger satisfactionspatial contexttemporal contextsocial behavior contextreal data sources
spellingShingle Theodoros Anagnostopoulos
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A Vehicle Ride-Sharing Algorithm Assessing Passenger Satisfaction According to Spatial, Temporal, and Social Behavior Context Based on Real Data Sources
Future Transportation
ride-sharing algorithm
passenger satisfaction
spatial context
temporal context
social behavior context
real data sources
title A Vehicle Ride-Sharing Algorithm Assessing Passenger Satisfaction According to Spatial, Temporal, and Social Behavior Context Based on Real Data Sources
title_full A Vehicle Ride-Sharing Algorithm Assessing Passenger Satisfaction According to Spatial, Temporal, and Social Behavior Context Based on Real Data Sources
title_fullStr A Vehicle Ride-Sharing Algorithm Assessing Passenger Satisfaction According to Spatial, Temporal, and Social Behavior Context Based on Real Data Sources
title_full_unstemmed A Vehicle Ride-Sharing Algorithm Assessing Passenger Satisfaction According to Spatial, Temporal, and Social Behavior Context Based on Real Data Sources
title_short A Vehicle Ride-Sharing Algorithm Assessing Passenger Satisfaction According to Spatial, Temporal, and Social Behavior Context Based on Real Data Sources
title_sort vehicle ride sharing algorithm assessing passenger satisfaction according to spatial temporal and social behavior context based on real data sources
topic ride-sharing algorithm
passenger satisfaction
spatial context
temporal context
social behavior context
real data sources
url https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7590/5/2/56
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