Spatial or Temporal Pooling Solves Wild Goose Chase

Abstract

The so-called "wild goose chase" phenomenon arising in the sharing system of vehicles such as cars, bicycles, and scooters, is referred to the long pickup time wasted on the road. Queuing theory is adopted to capture the spatial movements of vehicles in a centralized vehicle-sharing system. Then it is shown that both temporal and spatial pooling can resolve the "wild goose chase" problem to a large extent.