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Saving time, money and the environment – vHike a dynamic ride-sharing service for mobile devices

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Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, page 352–355. Seattle, IEEE, (March 2011)IEEE PerCom 2011 Best WiP Poster Award.
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766904

Abstract

In times of increasing traffic-related problems, such as air-pollution or traffic jams, ride-sharing is one of the most environmentally friendly and pleasantest ways to travel. The many benefits are offset by a multitude of prejudices and fears, including security concerns and a heavy scheduling and coordinating burden. For this reason this paper introduces vHike an easy-to-use management system for dynamic ride-sharing running on modern Smartphones. By the use of techniques well-known from Web 2.0 social networks the threats and social discomfort emanated by ride-sharing is mitigated. With vHike we want to show that a proper designed social dynamic ride-sharing system can be feasible and viable.

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