Innovative Social Vehicle Pooling

This work aims at describing the innovative architecture of the CityRide [2] vehicle poolingplatform. 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 specificallyaddressed 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 isinnovative, since it is determinant-driven and the main features of the SMOB project [2] areassociated with key social innovation user-related factors. The introduction of the platform ina 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, scholarsare provided with a novel architecture and an original social innovation-driven design.