Warren Lecture with Yanfeng Ouyang
Yanfeng Ouyang
Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Demand-Responsive Mobility Services: From Flexible Transit to Ridesharing
ABSTRACT: Yanfeng Ouyang presents a few efforts on designing demand-responsive mobility service systems that provide door-to-door transportation in cities. These systems include combinations of traditional transit, nonshared taxis, paratransit services (such as dial-a-ride), and newer forms of ridesharing (shared taxis or carpooling) used by crowd-sourced companies like DiDi and Uber. Operational similarities and differences of these systems will be discussed, along with a quantitative comparison of their resource requirements (for example, the required operating fleet size) and passengers’ expected level of service (for example, average door-to-door travel time). Integration of emerging mobility services with traditional transit systems will also be discussed. Ouyang also shows how these models can help mobility service providers and government agencies systematically explore operating, pricing, and regulatory strategies to enhance sustainability of urban transportation.