Tag: Transportation and Mobility Innovations
Joint pricing and matching lowered crowd-shipping delivery costs
What the study found The study found that a joint policy for matching orders to shoppers and setting delivery compensation can reduce delivery costs in a crowd-shipping system that uses in-store customers as couriers. The authors report that allowing multi-drop routing and flexible delivery delays also lowers operational costs. Why the authors say this matters…
Home charging eases electric minibus taxi service pressures
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in EngineeringAgent-based simulation shows home charging enables electric minibus taxi adoption in sub-Saharan paratransit without operational restructuring, with distinct grid demand implications.
On-demand electric transit served mainly younger women on short trips
Analysis of New Rochelle’s on-demand electric transit service shows strong ridership, lower operational costs, and multimodal integration potential for flexible public mobility.
