The 20th and 21st joint COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2020-21)

The online ride-hailing taxi brings new vitality into the traditional taxi market as well as emerging issues and challenges. As the supervision of online ride-hailing market has triggered a heated discussion, the protection of drivers' interests in the online ride-hailing system is one of the major concerns. This study focuses on the pricing and income distribution in the online ride-hailing system. Queuing system model and birth and death process theory are introduced to describe the driver's flow process in the network. The social welfare maximization model and the platform benefit maximization model are constructed based on the dynamic pricing mechanism, from the government’s and platform’s standpoint respectively. Numerical experiments are performed to analyze the driver's income distribution under the conditions of different settings. Suggestions on the government’s regulation and guidance are put forward based on the experiment results.

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