Article in Proceedings INPROC-2011-06

BibliographyStach, Christoph: Saving time, money and the environment - vHike a dynamic ride-sharing service for mobile devices.
In: Work in Progress workshop at PerCom 2011 (WIP of PerCom 2011).
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
pp. 1-4, english.
Seattle, USA: IEEE, March 2011.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaK.4 (Computers and Society)
Keywordsride-sharing; trust; security; location-based
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 ridesharing 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.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, B1 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Applications of Parallel and Distributed Systems)
Entry dateJanuary 13, 2011
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