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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,684 Views
25 Pages

12 November 2024

On-demand ride-sharing services change our travel behavior, which threatens the survival of taxi services. Motivated by this, this paper examines the impact of on-demand ride-sharing services on taxi services and how to achieve the coexistence of two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,146 Views
27 Pages

11 March 2021

This study examines the effects of on-demand mobility services on sustainability in terms of emissions and traffic volume. According to our simulations, implementing on-demand mobility services is recommendable only as a supplement to public transpor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,896 Views
24 Pages

25 October 2023

Amman, the capital of Jordan, has experienced significant traffic congestion due to the rise in private vehicle ownership and limited public transportation services. A Stated Preference (SP) survey was conducted to determine public transportation use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,964 Views
20 Pages

Optimizing On-Demand Bus Services for Remote Areas

  • Xudong Li,
  • Zhongzhen Yang and
  • Feng Lian

27 April 2023

This study proposes on-demand bus services for remote areas with low transit demand, incorporating travelers’ willingness to pay and values of time. To jointly optimize the on-demand service of overlapping bus routes, we construct a bi-level mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,273 Views
20 Pages

18 May 2020

On-demand multi-passenger shared transport options are increasingly being promoted as an influential strategy to reduce traffic congestion and emissions and improve the convenience and travel experience for passengers. These services, often referred...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,948 Views
37 Pages

Evaluation of the Impacts of On-Demand Bus Services Using Traffic Simulation

  • Sohani Liyanage,
  • Hussein Dia,
  • Gordon Duncan and
  • Rusul Abduljabbar

29 September 2024

This paper uses smart card data from Melbourne’s public transport network to model and evaluate the impacts of a flexible on-demand transport system. On-demand transport is an emerging mode of urban passenger transport that relies on meeting pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,681 Views
17 Pages

While macroscopic simulations of passenger vehicle traffic within cities are now common practice, the integration of last mile delivery into a macroscopic simulation to evaluate the emissions has seldomly been achieved. In fact, studies focusing sole...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,803 Views
22 Pages

23 October 2022

With the development of the “Internet +” model and the sharing economy model, the “online car-hailing” operation model has promoted the emergence of “online-hailing agricultural machinery”. This new supply and dema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,029 Views
16 Pages

24 September 2024

Background: The on-demand warehousing (ODW) model is emerging as a platform-enabled logistics solution based on resource sharing for businesses needing storage space. It is based on a business-to-business marketplace where companies can provide (or r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,296 Views
17 Pages

Demand-Responsive Transport (DRT) is one of the most valid solutions to tackle the problems affecting public transport today, both in urban and rural areas. Despite its undoubted advantages, it still remains underdeveloped compared to its great poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,906 Views
25 Pages

Traffic Organization Service for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) with Different Degrees of Autonomy

  • Wenqiang Guo,
  • Xinyu Zhang,
  • Jingyun Wang,
  • Hongxiang Feng and
  • Nyamatari Anselem Tengecha

4 December 2022

Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) have been an important direction for the development of intelligent shipping. However, most current international research on MASS focuses on navigation assistance technologies such as perception and decision-...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,579 Views
15 Pages

PROBA-V Mission Exploitation Platform

  • Erwin Goor,
  • Jeroen Dries,
  • Dirk Daems,
  • Martine Paepen,
  • Fabrizio Niro,
  • Philippe Goryl,
  • Philippe Mougnaud and
  • Andrea Della Vecchia

2 July 2016

As an extension of the PROBA-Vegetation (PROBA-V) user segment, the European Space Agency (ESA), de Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO), and partners TRASYS and Spacebel developed an operational Mission Exploitation Platform (MEP)...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,664 Views
15 Pages

The Customized Automatic Processing Framework for HY-2A Satellite Marine Advanced Products

  • Wei Liu,
  • Shibin Liu,
  • Lei Huang,
  • Jianbo Duan,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Xinpeng Li and
  • Jianbo Liu

9 December 2016

HY-2A, as the first Chinese ocean dynamic environment satellite, provides an effective and efficient way of observing ocean properties. However, in the operational stage, some inconveniences of the existing ground application system have appeared. Ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,439 Views
15 Pages

Last-Mile Travel Mode Choice: Data-Mining Hybrid with Multiple Attribute Decision Making

  • Rui Zhao,
  • Linchuan Yang,
  • Xinrong Liang,
  • Yuanyuan Guo,
  • Yi Lu,
  • Yixuan Zhang and
  • Xinyun Ren

27 November 2019

Transit offers stop-to-stop services rather than door-to-door services. The trip from a transit hub to the final destination is often entitled as the “last-mile” trip. This study innovatively proposes a hybrid approach by combining the da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,191 Views
16 Pages

With a burgeoning market and a multitude of on-demand food delivery (OFD) platforms offering diverse options, comprehending the reasons that drive consumers to switch between platforms is paramount. The push-pull-mooring (PPM) theory provides a compr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
885 Views
18 Pages

Future mobility concepts, such as Shared Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand (SAMOD) services, have the potential to contribute to sustainability goals and enhance connectivity between rural areas and urban public transport networks. The SAMOD concept reli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,936 Views
11 Pages

Rider Perceptions of an On-Demand Microtransit Service in Salt Lake County, Utah

  • Gregory S. Macfarlane,
  • Christian Hunter,
  • Austin Martinez and
  • Elizabeth Smith

On-demand microtransit services are frequently seen as an important tool in supporting first and last mile operations surrounding fixed route high frequency transit facilities, but questions remain surrounding who will use these novel services and fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,088 Views
25 Pages

26 June 2024

As customers’ expectations continue to rise, advanced on-demand transport services face the challenge of meeting new requirements. This study addresses a specific transportation issue belonging to dial-a-ride problems, including constraints aimed at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,964 Views
16 Pages

Operational Impacts of On-Demand Ride-Pooling Service Options in Birmingham, AL

  • Furat Salman,
  • Virginia P. Sisiopiku,
  • Jalal Khalil,
  • Wencui Yang and
  • Da Yan

Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) use online-enabled apps to provide on-demand transportation services. TNCs facilitate travelers to connect with drivers that can offer them rides for compensation using driver-owned vehicles. The ride requests...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,770 Views
19 Pages

17 October 2019

Despite the growing body of research on ride-hailing travel behaviors in Western countries, empirical evidence for changes in travel patterns resulting from the use of app-based services in developing countries remains rare. This study explores facto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,570 Views
18 Pages

The global market for MoD services is in a state of rapid and challenging transformation, with new market entrants in Europe, such as Uber, MOIA, and CleverShuttle, competing with traditional taxi providers. Rapid developments in available algorithms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,591 Views
18 Pages

4 August 2019

The growing demand on video streaming services increasingly motivates the development of a reliable and accurate models for the assessment of Quality of Experience (QoE). In this duty, human-related factors which have significant influence on QoE pla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,310 Views
17 Pages

The ongoing transformation of mobility, including new services such as on-demand mobility, raises the question of how services need to be designed so that everyone can use them. The number of persons with mobility impairments is increasing as a resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,545 Views
26 Pages

Learning-Based Coordination Model for On-the-Fly Self-Composing Services Using Semantic Matching

  • Houssem Ben Mahfoudh,
  • Ashley Caselli and
  • Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo

Forecasts announce that the number of connected objects will exceed 20 billion by 2025. Objects, such as sensors, drones or autonomous cars participate in pervasive applications of various domains ranging from smart cities, quality of life, transport...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
20,190 Views
22 Pages

The Social, Economic, and Environmental Impacts of Ridesourcing Services: A Literature Review

  • Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir,
  • Ayyoob Sharifi and
  • Mohammad Hajian Hossein Abadi

The proliferation of ridesourcing services has raised both hopes and concerns about their role in cities. The impacts of ridesourcing services are complex and multi-faceted. Through reviewing the literature, this study aims to identify the social, ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,869 Views
18 Pages

An On-Demand Service for Managing and Analyzing Arctic Sea Ice High Spatial Resolution Imagery

  • Dexuan Sha,
  • Xin Miao,
  • Mengchao Xu,
  • Chaowei Yang,
  • Hongjie Xie,
  • Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez,
  • Yun Li,
  • Qian Liu and
  • Jingchao Yang

17 April 2020

Sea ice acts as both an indicator and an amplifier of climate change. High spatial resolution (HSR) imagery is an important data source in Arctic sea ice research for extracting sea ice physical parameters, and calibrating/validating climate models....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,264 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2021

Transportation accounts for more than a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. Carpooling is a subset of the sharing economy, in which individuals share their vehicle with commuters to save travel expenses. In recent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,453 Views
19 Pages

In China, the traditional taxi industry is conforming to the trend of the times, with taxi drivers working with e-hailing applications. This reform is of great significance, not only for the taxi industry, but also for the transportation industry, ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
13,716 Views
28 Pages

The impacts of ICT-based mobility services vary in different cities, depending on socioeconomic, urban form, and cultural parameters. The impacts of car-sharing and ridesourcing on public transport have not been investigated appropriately in post-Sov...

  • Review
  • Open Access
247 Citations
29,288 Views
21 Pages

An Overview of Shared Mobility

  • Cláudia A. Soares Machado,
  • Nicolas Patrick Marie De Salles Hue,
  • Fernando Tobal Berssaneti and
  • José Alberto Quintanilha

22 November 2018

In a wider understanding, shared mobility can be defined as trip alternatives that aim to maximize the utilization of the mobility resources that a society can pragmatically afford, disconnecting their usage from ownership. Then, shared mobility is t...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
86 Citations
10,711 Views
21 Pages

An On-Demand Web Tool for the Unsupervised Retrieval of Earth’s Surface Deformation from SAR Data: The P-SBAS Service within the ESA G-POD Environment

  • Claudio De Luca,
  • Roberto Cuccu,
  • Stefano Elefante,
  • Ivana Zinno,
  • Michele Manunta,
  • Valentina Casola,
  • Giancarlo Rivolta,
  • Riccardo Lanari and
  • Francesco Casu

19 November 2015

This paper presents a web tool for the unsupervised retrieval of Earth’s surface deformation from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data. The system is based on the implementation of the Differential SAR Interferometry (DInSAR) algorithm refer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
612 Views
32 Pages

On-demand public transport systems are increasingly adopted to improve service flexibility, reduce operating costs, and meet emerging mobility needs. Evaluating their performance under realistic demand and operational conditions, however, remains a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,490 Views
25 Pages

14 October 2021

Regulating the curbside usage of delivery vehicles and ride-hailing services as well as micromobility has been a challenge in the last years, a challenge which might worsen with the increase of autonomous vehicles. The contribution of the research ou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,090 Views
15 Pages

The rapid rise of e-commerce and advances in the technological sector have enabled the emergence of modern business models on e-marketplaces. Digital and on-demand e-marketplaces have become increasingly popular, responding to the trend of the sharin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,426 Views
11 Pages

Micro Transit Simulation of On-Demand Shuttles Based on Transit Data for First- and Last-Mile Connection

  • Cristian Poliziani,
  • Gary Hsueh,
  • David Czerwinski,
  • Tom Wenzel,
  • Zachary Needell,
  • Haitam Laarabi,
  • Joerg Schweizer and
  • Federico Rupi

We simulate the introduction of shared, automated, and electric vehicles (SAEVs) providing on-demand shuttles service in a large-scale transport digital twin of the San Francisco Bay Area region (California, USA) based on transit supply and demand da...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,068 Views
17 Pages

Cloud Broker: Customizing Services for Cloud Market Requirements

  • Evangelia Filiopoulou,
  • Georgios Chatzithanasis,
  • Christos Michalakelis and
  • Mara Nikolaidou

19 April 2024

Cloud providers offer various purchasing options to enable users to tailor their costs according to their specific requirements, including on-demand, reserved instances, and spot instances. On-demand and spot instances satisfy short-term workloads, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,300 Views
28 Pages

Finding a sustainable mobility solution for the future is one of the most competitive challenges in the logistics and mobility sector at present. Policymakers, researchers, and companies are working intensively to provide novel options that are envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,112 Views
18 Pages

11 May 2022

Finding a sustainable mobility solution for the future is one of the most competitive challenges in the logistics and transportation sector nowadays. Researchers, universities, and companies are working intensively to provide novel mobility options t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
132 Citations
18,571 Views
15 Pages

2 July 2021

Advanced air mobility (AAM) is a broad concept enabling consumers access to on-demand air mobility, cargo and package delivery, healthcare applications, and emergency services through an integrated and connected multimodal transportation network. How...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,580 Views
16 Pages

6 September 2024

The sharing economy is beneficial for sustainable development. It effectively utilizes underused resources and reduces unnecessary production, consumption, and waste through resource sharing. This study investigates the factors that can increase cons...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,133 Views
22 Pages

28 March 2025

The development of satellite communications has received considerable attention in recent years. Early satellite communications were dominated by voice and low-speed data services, but now they must support high-speed multimedia services. Low Earth O...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,734 Views
19 Pages

25 August 2021

Focus groups on shared, autonomous vehicles (SAVs) in New South Wales expressed “sharing anxiety”—an intense concern about the prospect of sharing their mobility journey with strangers, without a driver or authority figure present. This presents a si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,113 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2022

Vertical mobility, as a commercial service, has been considered for scheduled volume and long-distance mobility services. To overcome its limits and increase its potential coverage, flexibility, and adaptability, centralized mobility hubs, similar to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,737 Views
21 Pages

Maps have long been seen as a single cartographic product for different uses, with the user having to adapt their interpretation to his or her own needs. On-demand mapping reverses this paradigm in that it is the map that adapts to the user’s needs a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,645 Views
27 Pages

27 August 2022

Shared automated mobility on-demand (SAMOD) is considered as a promising mobility solution in the future. Users book trips on-demand via a smartphone, and service algorithms set up virtual stops (vStop) where users then need to walk to board the auto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,496 Views
22 Pages

13 July 2021

As connected, electric, and autonomous vehicle (AV) services are developed for cities, the research is conclusive that the use of these services must be shared to achieve maximum efficiency. Yet, few agencies have prioritised designing an AV system t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,612 Views
18 Pages

4 March 2022

This paper is addressing a new class of on-demand transport problems oriented toward customers. A mixed-integer linear programming model is proposed with new effective constraints that contribute to enhancing the quality of service. An exact resoluti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,579 Views
27 Pages

Beyond Traditional Public Transport: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of First and Last-Mile AV Solutions in Periurban Environment

  • Félix Carreyre,
  • Tarek Chouaki,
  • Nicolas Coulombel,
  • Jaâfar Berrada,
  • Laurent Bouillaut and
  • Sebastian Hörl

9 July 2025

With the advent of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) technology, extensive research around the design of on-demand mobility systems powered by such vehicles is performed. An important part of these studies consists in the evaluation of the economic impact of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,166 Views
24 Pages

Spectrum Demand Forecasting for IoT Services

  • Daniel Jaramillo-Ramirez and
  • Manuel Perez

8 September 2021

The evolution of IoT has come with the challenge of connecting not only a massive number of devices, but also providing an always wider variety of services. In the next few years, a big increase in the number of connected devices is expected, togethe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
123 Citations
13,055 Views
31 Pages

Overview of Demand-Response Services: A Review

  • Daiva Stanelyte,
  • Neringa Radziukyniene and
  • Virginijus Radziukynas

23 February 2022

It is essential for the electricity sector to analyze and determine the distribution capacity throughput and apply new methods aimed at increasing the capacity of the transmission system. Consequently, the transition to modern electricity networks is...

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