Distributed Ride-Matching for Shared Ridehailing Service with Intelligent City Infrastructure

Abstract: High computational time is one of the most important operational issues in centralized dynamic shared ridehailing services. To resolve this issue, we propose a distributed ride-matching system that is based on vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and infrastructure to infrastructure (I2I) communication. The application on downtown Toronto road network demonstrated that the distributed system resulted in a speed-up of 125 times in terms of computational time and showed high scalability. Moreover, the service rate in the proposed system improved by 7% compared to the centralized. However, the centralized system showed 29% and 17% improvement in wait time and detour time, respectively.