Xin Zhang1,2, Gege Jiang1,2,*
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.26, No.3, pp. 1-5, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09222
Abstract With the booming development of the ride-sourcing (RS)industry, aggregation platforms that integrate RS
companies have emerged in recent years, such as Gaode and Meituan. Aggregation platforms can consolidate
resources and avoid fragmentation of the market. But the emergence of aggregation platforms has also
changed the market structure and brought challenges. This paper explores the impact of aggregation
platforms on the market with two models of companies: customer-to-customer (C2C) companies, and
business-to-customer (B2C) companies. C2C companies adjust supply and demand to maximize revenue by
determining travel fares and the cut taken from the travel fares, i.e., More >