Activity-based ride-sharing in action

© 2018 held by the owner/author(s). Activity-Based ride-sharing is a new paradigm which enhances the current model based on fixed origins and destinations, namely trip-based ride-sharing. In this new model, a user issues a ride-sharing request with his origin and the activity he wants to perform at any convenient destination. Then, the system computes the travel plans and users will be suggested the optimal destinations, which may be common to many users. In this way, the set of possible destinations for each user is expanded and further distance savings can be made as we have already shown in our previous work [1, 3]. In this paper, we show Activity-Based ride-sharing in action through our web-service-based framework, which is able to suggest routes and meeting points for many users in a city-scale scenario.