Optimal contract design for ride-sourcing services under dual sourcing
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چکیده
To cope with the uncertainty of labor supply from freelance/self-scheduling drivers, some ride-sourcing platforms recruit contractual who are paid a fixed salary for pre-specified work schedules. This paper develops an aggregate modeling framework to examine practicability such dual-sourcing strategy. We investigate optimal contract design dual sourcing under demand uncertainty, varying price sensitivity freelancers, and heterogeneity in drivers’ risk attitude. Our results uncover conditions which benefits both platform drivers. show that platform’s staffing pricing decisions most responsive freelancers’ sensitivity. When stays adequately low, drivers can be better off compared self-scheduling counterpart. On contrary, moderate sensitivity, freelancers will made worse by sourcing. The contracts effective markets where risk-averse.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Transportation Research Part B-methodological
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1879-2367', '0191-2615']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2021.01.014