[FEATURE] Rating Game/Simulation

[TSampley]

User Story

As a Developer, I want to better understand how driver/rider bids would interact in an open ride-share marketplace

Rating Game

Drivers vs. Riders

• Generate Map
  • Nodes representing intersections
  • Edges representing roads
• Place Drivers
  • Choose random locations to pick up riders with random destinations
• Track Driver/Rider Bids
  • Drivers decide their desired rates R_d and want to be as high as possible
  • Riders decide their desired rate R_r and want to be as low as possible

I expect the overlap of bids to evolve much like a stock-market

Case Study

Stillwater Public Library to Homeland
Google estimates 6min for 1.6 miles
Uber reports 4-6 drivers for UberX @ $6.11
about $3.81/mi or $1.02/minute

rider/driver bid contention might look something like:

though stock markets visualize bid exchanges by putting bids in buckets

• This doesn't consider ratings

  • Riders and Drivers would naturally both want the highest rated driver and rider, respectively
  • We imagine that lower-rated drivers would charge lower rates to attract more riders
  • We want to match riders with the highest rated drivers for their desired rate
  • We image that lower-rated riders would pay higher rates to attract more drivers

• In general we also want to

  • deliver requests to the nearest drivers first (for rider-sake to reduce costs)
  • deliver requests to the highest rated drivers first (for rider-sake to improve experience)