INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Conference (TSL) in Cambridge, US

The triennial INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society Conference discusses state-of-the-art research in transportation science and logistics. This year, the 3rd TSL Conference was held on the MIT campus in Cambridge (Massachusetts, US).

Prof. Dr. Uta Mohring presented her recent work on the effectiveness of driver wage policies in ride-hailing networks with strategic drivers.

When matching rider requests with drivers over a spatial network, ride-hailing platforms face two important challenges: (i) there are significant spatial demand imbalances that require some repositioning of drivers; (ii) drivers strategically decide whether to participate in the platform and if so, when and where to reposition. The work characterizes how the effectiveness of driver wage policies under decentralized repositioning depends on the interplay of demand imbalances, wage flexibility, and the congestion-sensitivity and spatial relations of travel times.

Link to the conference webpage: Transportation Science and Logistics Society Conference
Link to the INFORMS TSL Society: INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society