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...