%0 Conference Proceedings
%A Stach, Christoph
%D 2011
%T Saving time, money and the environment – vHike a dynamic ride-sharing service for mobile devices
%E Cook, Diane; Liu, Jie; Song, WenZhan & Nicklas, Daniela
%B Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
%C Seattle
%I IEEE
%P 352-355
%S PerCom '11
%8 March
%@ 978-1-61284-936-2
%3 inproceedings
%F percom_11_vhike
%K ride-sharing; trust; security; location-based
%X In times of increasing traffic-related problems, such as air-pollution or traffic jams, ride-sharing is one of the most environmentally friendly and pleasantest ways to travel. The many benefits are offset by a multitude of prejudices and fears, including security concerns and a heavy scheduling and coordinating burden. For this reason this paper introduces vHike an easy-to-use management system for dynamic ride-sharing running on modern Smartphones. By the use of techniques well-known from Web 2.0 social networks the threats and social discomfort emanated by ride-sharing is mitigated. With vHike we want to show that a proper designed social dynamic ride-sharing system can be feasible and viable.
%Z IEEE PerCom 2011 Best WiP Poster Award
%R 10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766904