Title
Taxi or Hitchhiking: Predicting Passenger's Preferred Service on Ride Sharing Platforms.
Abstract
Ride sharing apps like Uber and Didi Chuxing have played an important role in addressing the users' transportation needs, which come not only in huge volumes, but also in great variety. While some users prefer low-cost services such as carpooling or hitchhiking, others prefer more pricey options like taxi or premier services. Further analyses suggest that such preference may also be associated with different time and location. In this paper, we empirically analyze the preferred services and propose a recommender system which provides service recommendation based on temporal, spatial, and behavioral features. Offline simulations show that our system achieves a high prediction accuracy and reduces the user's effort in finding the desired service. Such a recommender system allows a more precise scheduling for the platform, and enables personalized promotions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3209978.3210153
SIGIR
Field
DocType
ISBN
Recommender system,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Scheduling (computing),Computer science
Conference
978-1-4503-5657-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lingyu Zhang1344.43
Wei Ai2534.44
Chuan Yuan300.34
Yuhui Zhang4278.93
Jieping Ye56943351.37