Bibliography
From dynamicridesharing.org
Papers
[reverse chronological order, more or less]
SafeRide: Reducing Single Occupancy Vehicles, Jim Morris, January, 2009. A working paper for a potential project in the San Francisco Bay Area. Comprehensive overview of the subject, including references to previous and current projects.
Research Bibliography prepared by Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student Kursat Ozenc <kursadfatih@gmail.com>
A Market Analysis by a team of Carnegie Mellon MS Students contains much current (2009) information about SF Bay Area players and a good financial analysis framework.
Interactive System for Real Time Dynamic Multi-hop Carpooling, Philip Gruebele, September 2008. [1] Proposes a system in which "Passengers and vehicles are matched without the requirements of sharing a similar destination or of passenger destination being positioned on or near driver route. Passengers can move towards destination one hop at a time..." Apparently no implementation steps (e.g., software) so far.
How I Solved the Energy Problem, Scott Adams, June 2007. [2] A well-commented blog by the Dilbert author "inventing" the concept.
The Smart Jitney: Rapid, Realistic Transport, Pat Murphy, New Solutions, April 2007. [3] Dynamic ridesharing with private vehicles reframed as "jitneys." It suggests more organized vetting of the drivers; getting them to put a “Smart Jitney” logo on their cars is a nice marketing touch. It also includes some ideas about improving law enforcement best ignored. No evidence this proposal has gone beyond the paper stage. See also: Smart Jitney: A Modest Proposal
Empty Seats Traveling: Next-generation ridesharing and its potential to mitigate traffic and emission problems in the 21st century, Stephan Hartwig, Michael Buchman, Nokia Research Center Bochum, February 2007. [4] Overview of dynamic ridesharing concept, usage scenarios, patent history, brief discussion of Amsterdam and Frankfurt airport projects.
Casual Carpooling – Enhanced, Kalon Kelley, Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2007 pdf (extracted from [5]). Yet another paper invention of dynamic ridesharing. Emphasis on vehicle-based transponders and "radio frequency identification devices" (electronic tags) to identify passengers and provide accounting.
Car-Pooling – An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Ben Rosen, The Huffington Post, January 2007. [6] A successful tech venture capitalist describes his initial work (with "a team of software engineers") and market research on a proposed dynamic ridesharing system. His discussions with government officials were not encouraging. (He has since given up)
Auctions Negotiation for Mobile Rideshare Service, Abdel-Naby, Stefano Fante, Paolo Giorgini, circa 2007 (local copy) from [7]. Computer-science based research – "agent-based rideshare system that is accessible via lightweight devices... auction mechanism as a method of negotiation among autonomous and proactive agents...". The important idea, in these papers, is that it would be possible to organize ridesharing respecting the two following constraints : to provide financial incentives to users, to avoid direct management of money.
Pilot Tests of Dynamic Ridesharing, Dan Kirshner, December 2006, minor revisions more recently. [8] A thorough description of one would-be entrepreneur's efforts to implement a system called "Ride Now!" Three different tries were made, the most elaborate involving a Federal grant and the cooperation (and non-cooperation) of local agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Describes what worked – and what didn't.
Organized Dynamic Ridesharing: The Potential Environmental Benefits and the Opportunity for Advancing the Concept, Amber Levofsky and Allen Greenberg, Transportation Research Board, January 2001. pdf
Flexible Automobile Sharing Transit (FAST), 2000. Another outline/proposal of the concept. A bit bombastic, but all the features are there. pdf
Patents
1982 Automated, Door-to-Door demand-responsive transportation system US 4360875 (Robert W. Behnke)
2001 Passenger Transportation System and Method US 2002/0011940
2003 US 182183: a method of organising a multi-car pool.
2004 US 6697730 (Georgia Tech): an urban transit system employing cellular communication, GPS locating technology, and computers to provide real time command and control of passengers and vehicles.
2004 JP 220396: a car sharing information supply system.
2006 US 7136747 [9]: Method for GPS carpool rendezvous tracking and personal safety verification.
