A new paper by UCL School of Management’s Dr Wei Miao examines a difficult design choice at the heart of taxi ride-sharing services, like Uber or Bolt. Who should decide the acceptance of a passenger’s ride request, the driver or the platform?

UCL School of Management Assistant Professors Yiting Deng, Wei Miao and Yongdong Liu have recently published a paper in the Journal of Operations Management investigating the effects of surge pricing on driver behaviour in the ride-sharing market.