Analyzing location-based advertising for vehicle service providers using effective resistances

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Abstract

Vehicle service providers can display commercial ads in their vehicles based on passengers' origins and destinations to create a new revenue stream. We study a vehicle service provider who can generate different ad revenues when displaying ads on different arcs (i.e., origin-destination pairs). The provider needs to ensure the vehicle flow balance at each location, which makes it challenging to analyze the provider's vehicle assignment and pricing decisions for different arcs. To tackle the problem, we show that certain properties of the traffic network can be captured by a corresponding electrical network. When the effective resistance between two locations is small, there are many paths between the two locations and the provider can easily route vehicles between them. We derive the provider's optimal vehicle assignment and pricing decisions based on effective resistances.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSIGMETRICS Performance 2019 - Abstracts of the 2019 SIGMETRICS/Performance Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages37-38
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450366786
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 20 2019
Event14th Joint Conference of International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2019 and IFIP Performance Conference 2019, SIGMETRICS/Performance 2019 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: Jun 24 2019Jun 28 2019

Publication series

NameSIGMETRICS Performance 2019 - Abstracts of the 2019 SIGMETRICS/Performance Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

Conference

Conference14th Joint Conference of International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, SIGMETRICS 2019 and IFIP Performance Conference 2019, SIGMETRICS/Performance 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period6/24/196/28/19

Keywords

  • Effective resistances
  • In-vehicle advertising
  • Spatial pricing

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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