Bus Ridesharing for Millions of Passengers

In urban public transit, the ever-evolving and diversifying demands of the public pose significant constraints on bus operations due to their adherence to fixed routes.To meet the desire for low-cost and flexible travel, this paper proposes a high-capacity bus ridesharing service that can be implemented in any city worldwide.This service will transform buses from adhering to fixed routes to customizing personalized routes based on the destinations of ridesharing passengers.Passengers can submit their travel requests via mobile devices, and upon receiving these requests, the operator will dispatch suitable buses to provide service, ensuring that each passenger arrives at their destination within the allotted time.Utilizing urban public transit's passenger flow distribution, we have developed an experimental platform to emulate real-world bus travel behaviors.Our testing involved a genuine dataset of taxi requests and a simulated bus dataset representing the movements of 4.1 million individual in Chengdu city, China.