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#1 Dynamic Car Dispatching and Pricing: Revenue and Fairness for Ridesharing Platforms [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Zishuo Zhao ; Xi Chen ; Xuefeng Zhang ; Yuan Zhou

A major challenge for ridesharing platforms is to guarantee profit and fairness simultaneously, especially in the presence of misaligned incentives of drivers and riders. We focus on the dispatching-pricing problem to maximize the total revenue while keeping both drivers and riders satisfied. We study the computational complexity of the problem, provide a novel two-phased pricing solution with revenue and fairness guarantees, extend it to stochastic settings and develop a dynamic (a.k.a., learning-while-doing) algorithm that actively collects data to learn the demand distribution during the scheduling process. We also conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithms.