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Collaborative Consumption in Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing: Models, Analysis, and Experiments

项目名称：	Collaborative Consumption in Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing: Models, Analysis, and Experiments
摘要：	Collaborative consumption raises several important questions. How does collaborative consumption affect ownership and usage of resources? Is it necessarily the case that collaborative consumption leads to greater sustainability (i.e., leads to lower ownership, lower usage, or both)? Who benefits most from collaborative consumption, those who own, those who rent, or the platform that matches owners and renters? How would the platform set prices, commissions, and membership fees and under what conditions would choices for these parameters lead to socially desirable outcome? Are there social and behavioral factors that affect the extent to which owners would be willing to rent and renters would be willing to forego ownerships (e.g., moral hazard because renters may not be as careful with the product they rent as they would with a product they own or information asymmetry because renters may not know the true quality of the product before renting it)? To what extent would online two-way reputation systems induce greater collaborative consumption and who profits most? Are there public policies, if enacted, that would ensure that collaborative consumption would lead to higher social welfare? In this research project, the project team plans to address the above and other related questions. The project team uses peer-to-peer car sharing as a primary application. However, the team expects their models, analysis, and results to apply more broadly to other forms of resource sharing. Outcomes from the research will include 1. models to analyze collaborative consumptions at varying scales, 2. analysis and managerial insights regarding the impact of collaborative consumptions on ownerships, usage,the surplus of renters and owners, as well as social welfare, including impact on the environment, 3. decision support tools for platforms regarding the optimal choice of rental prices, commissions, and membership fees, 4. public policy recommendations for governments regarding how best to regulate collaborative consumption to ensure that total welfare is enhanced, 5. insights from behavioral study regarding decision making biases that may affect the outcomes of collaborative consumption, and 6. a series of case studies to validate the project team's models and analysis using parameter values calibrated based on actual data from multiple regions in the US and internationally. The research is multi-disciplinary and draws on methods from transportation science, economics, game theory, operations research, and the behavioral sciences. Moreover, the research combines analytical modeling, behavioral studies and empirical analysis.
状态：	Active
资金：	44000
资助组织：	Center for Transportation Studies
项目负责人：	Andrews, Elizabeth C
执行机构：	University of Minnesota
主要研究人员：	Benjaafar, Saif
开始时间：	20160201
预计完成日期：	20180630
实际结束时间：	0