Research Seminar: The Effects of Driver Wage Policies in Ride-Hailing Networks

On April 27, Prof. Dr. Uta Mohring gave a research seminar at the seminar series of the Operations & Business Analytics Group at the Department of Business Administration, UZH. She 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: Research Seminar: The Effects of Driver Wage Policies in Ride-Hailing Networks