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The Integrated Dial-a-Ride Problem

open access: yes, 2009
In this paper we present a formulation of the Integrated Dial-a-Ride (IDARP). This problem is to schedule dial-a-ride requests, where some part of each journey may be carried out by a fixed route service.
Värbrand, Peter   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Precedence‐Constrained Shortest Path

open access: yesNetworks, Volume 86, Issue 3, Page 282-295, October 2025.
ABSTRACT We propose a variant of the shortest path problem where the order in which vertices occur in the path is subject to precedence constraints. Precedence constraints are defined in terms of vertex pairs (a,b)$$ \left(a,b\right) $$ which indicate that a vertex a$$ a $$ is the predecessor of a vertex b$$ b $$.
Christina Büsing   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scenes From a Sociolegal Career: An Informal Memoir

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 1015-1036, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This memoir describes the 40‐year unfolding, project by project, of my sociolegal field research on legal and regulatory processes. It provides brief accounts of my interactions and interviews with regulatory officials and with businesspeople responsible for regulatory compliance.
Robert A. Kagan
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Service Quality of On-Demand Transportation Systems Using a Hybrid Approach with Customized Heuristics

open access: yesSmart Cities
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 ...
Sonia Nasri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Racial Disparities in Financial Complaints and the Role of Corporate Social Attitudes

open access: yesJournal of Accounting Research, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1289-1333, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Using consumer complaints filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a measure for the quality of financial products and services, we present evidence of racial disparities in the service quality received by consumers. Consumers in high‐minority communities file more complaints than those in low‐minority communities, and the racial
RACHEL M. HAYES   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Online Dial-A-Ride Problem Under Reasonable Load

open access: yes, 2000
In this paper, we analyze algorithms for the online dial-a-ride problem with request sets that fulfill a certain worst-case restriction: roughly speaking, a set of requests for the online dial-a-ride problem is reasonable if the requests that come up in ...
Dietrich Hauptmeier   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A multi-period dial-a-ride problem with driver consistency

open access: yes, 2015
Dial-a-ride services are transportation services offered to individual persons requesting transportation between specific origin and destination locations.
Braekers, Kris, Kovacs, Attila
core   +1 more source

Robustness Tools in Dynamic Dial-a-Ride Problems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) models an operation research problem related to the on demand transport. This paper introduces one of the fundamental features of this type of transport: the ro-bustness. This paper solves the Dial-a-Ride Problem by integrating a measure of insertion capacity called Insertability.
Samuel Deleplanque, Alain Quilliot
openaire   +3 more sources

Innovation in the sharing economy: Examining Uber's transformation

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 822-849, September 2025.
Abstract The sharing economy has altered transactions between providers and users in at least two pivotal ways. First, sharing economy offerings are often crowdsourced from a wide range of providers rather than a single firm. Second, these offerings are typically temporarily accessed rather than permanently owned.
Erica Ji Hyun Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The triangular relationship in platform gig work: Consumers, platform beneficence and worker vulnerability

open access: yesNew Technology, Work and Employment, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 265-284, July 2025.
Abstract Platform gig work is created and contested in dynamic, triangular relationships between platforms, workers, and consumers. Compared with the first two groups, however, evidence about the role of the third—consumers—is sparse. In this paper, we investigate consumers' changing perceptions of work in the platform gig economy and argue that their ...
Joshua Healy, Andreas Pekarek
wiley   +1 more source

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