Learning to assign: Towards fair task assignment in large-scale ride hailing

• Main Authors: SHI, Dingyuan, TONG, Yongxin, ZHOU, Zimu, SONG, Bingchen, LV, Weifeng, YANG, Qiang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: fairness; ride hailing; reinforcement learning; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6382; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7385/viewcontent/kdd21_shi.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Ride hailing is a widespread shared mobility application where the central issue is to assign taxi requests to drivers with various objectives. Despite extensive research on task assignment in ride hailing, the fairness of earnings among drivers is largely neglected. Pioneer studies on fair task ass...