YoRoad: A Monitoring Service for Ride Sharing Systems

In recent years, many ride-sharing systems have been widely used for helping people travel around. These systems generate a lot of data every day, e.g., the trajectories and the transactions. But as far as we know, there is no such monitoring system or platform for ride sharing systems to manage and observe this set of data in an effective way. Hence, in this paper, we illustrate YoRoad, a general monitoring service for ride-sharing system. YoRoad consists of three main modules: (1) moving objects tracking module is used for monitoring the drivers real-time locations, where moving object indexing and spatial query processing technique is embedded; (2) user management module, where the information for each driver and rider is maintained; and (3) data statistics module, where we perform some data analysis such as the total distance saving comparison between ride-sharing and non-ride-sharing, trajectory data mining and location preference or travel pattern discovery based on the transaction data.