We study the Allocation Problem for the Platform of Platforms (abbreviated as AP3) in a two-sided service market, where a third-party integrator tries to allocate customers to workers separately controlled by a set of online platforms in a manner that satisfies all stakeholders. AP3 is a natural...

We propose a novel quantity-based demand management system aiming to promote ride-sharing. The system sells the permit to access a facility (conceptualized as a bottleneck) by auction but encourages commuters to share the permits with each other. The permit is classified according to access time...

In this study, we show that the passenger-driver matching process in street ride-hail is dictated by the physical limitation of a passenger's average eyesight and the preference of cruising taxi drivers for certain locations. Together, these two spatiotemporal features, called effective hail...

Uberization promises to transform society based on an intuitive proposition: Advanced peer-to-peer matching guarantees greater overall efficiency. Here we show a paradox challenging this proposition in uberized ride-hail service, known as e-hail. By analyzing hundreds of local markets in...

This paper considers a carpool matching (CaMa) problem in which participants price shared rides based on both operating cost and schedule displacement (i.e, the absolute difference between the desired and actual arrival times). By reporting their valuation of this displacement, each participant...

High-quality film capacitors are widely used in many fields such as new energy vehicles, electronic communications, etc., due to their advantages in wide frequency response and low dielectric loss. The dielectric film is a crucial part of the film capacitor, and its properties have an important...

Fungi and algae are specific microbial groups associated with the deterioration and safety of stone monuments. In this study, the high-throughput sequencing analysis was used to investigate the diversity, distributions, ecological functions, and interaction patterns of both fungal and algal...

This paper traces the plunge and rebound of the taxi market in Shenzhen, China through the COVID-19 lockdown. A four-week taxi GPS trajectory data set is collected in the first quarter of 2020, which covers the period of lockdown and phased reopening in the city. We conduct a spatiotemporal...