Research Article
Carpooling in Urban Areas: A Real-Time Service Case-Study
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_14, author={Matteo Mallus and Giuseppe Colistra and Luigi Atzori and Maurizio Murroni}, title={Carpooling in Urban Areas: A Real-Time Service Case-Study}, proceedings={Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. Second International Summit, IoT 360° 2015, Rome, Italy, October 27-29, 2015. Revised Selected Papers, Part I}, proceedings_a={IOT360}, year={2017}, month={1}, keywords={Real-time carpooling Smart city Internet of Things Smart transport}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_14} }
- Matteo Mallus
Giuseppe Colistra
Luigi Atzori
Maurizio Murroni
Year: 2017
Carpooling in Urban Areas: A Real-Time Service Case-Study
IOT360
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47063-4_14
Abstract
The realization of the smart city paradigm relies on the implementation of various innovative systems. Among the sectors of interest for a smart city, the sustainable transport is a key service where carpooling solutions are gaining more and more popularity in the last years. The most widespread use of the carpooling relies on a bakeca approach (i.e., the trips are planned well in advance), which is however not suitable in urban areas where the users are looking for an immediate companion. In this paper, we focus on the challenge of a real-time carpooling service and provide the following contribution: the Clacsoon platform is described, which is intended to make easy for the clacsooners to find the companion of the trip; an emulation system is implemented, which is used to generate increasing numbers of users that interact with the Clacsoon platform to evaluate the performance; based on the emulator, extensive trials are implemented to analyse the quality of experience provided to the users varying the characteristics of the population; from the results we extract important information about the challenges to be addressed for successful deployments of a real-time carpooling service.