%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