The Design of a Vehicle Pooling System: A Southern Italian University Application Scenario

"This work aims at describing the innovative architecture of the CityRide [2] vehicle pooling platform. The scope of this study is broader than the traditional carpooling initiatives, since itinvolves any kind of vehicle and is the first, to authors’ knowledge, to be specifically addressed to vehicle pooling platforms. It consists of a hither-to not existing integration oftwo modules - i. e. the logistics (LOE) and social networking (SE) ones. The design process is innovative, since it is determinant-driven and the main features of the SMOB project [2] are associated with key social innovation user-related factors. The introduction of the platform in a Southern Italian university is used as application scenario. By a methodological standpoint,it is a qualitative research about carpooling with a case study approach. Ultimately, scholars are provided with a novel architecture and an original social innovation-driven design."