Towards Ridesharing with Passenger Transfers (Extended Abstract)

Ridesharing services have the potential to ll empty seats in cars, reduce emissions and enable more ecient transportation. We propose rideshare services which transfer passengers between multiple drivers. By planning for transfers, we increase the availability and range of the rideshare service, and reduce the total vehicular miles travelled by the network. We propose three heuristics to schedule rideshare routes with transfers. Each provides a tradeo in eectiveness and computational cost. We demonstrate these tradeos and the advantage of transfers in simulation.