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Online Bus Services: A View of Swvl Company

Online Bus Services: A View of Swvl Company

Hoda Hamdy, Bassem Hossam El Deen, Ismail Mahmoud El-Toukhy, Ahmad Elsagheer, Ali Mohamed
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 11
ISBN13: 9781799880400|ISBN10: 1799880400|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799880417|EISBN13: 9781799880424
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8040-0.ch008
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Hamdy, Hoda, et al. "Online Bus Services: A View of Swvl Company." Handbook of Research on Decision Sciences and Applications in the Transportation Sector, edited by Said Ali Hassan and Ali Wagdy Mohamed, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 178-188. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8040-0.ch008

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Hamdy, H., Hossam El Deen, B., El-Toukhy, I. M., Elsagheer, A., & Mohamed, A. (2021). Online Bus Services: A View of Swvl Company. In S. Hassan & A. Mohamed (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Decision Sciences and Applications in the Transportation Sector (pp. 178-188). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8040-0.ch008

Chicago

Hamdy, Hoda, et al. "Online Bus Services: A View of Swvl Company." In Handbook of Research on Decision Sciences and Applications in the Transportation Sector, edited by Said Ali Hassan and Ali Wagdy Mohamed, 178-188. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8040-0.ch008

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Abstract

Swvl is a smart ride-sharing transportation provider that brings together travelers at certain times and locations with bus drivers ensuring affordability, reliability, and convenience to all parties. In this chapter, the authors briefly discuss Swvl's vision, history, the services Swvl provides, and Swvl team's values. Furthermore, they examine the various optimization problems at Swvl from both the demand and supply perspective, common problems' features, a typical research project lifecycle at Swvl, and how they apply decision sciences to their problems at Swvl. Examples of such decision sciences applications include mathematical modeling, data analytics, and graph algorithms. Swvl operates at a very large scale and continues to grow eminently, creating challenging, complex, and interesting problems faced every day. Such growth inspires a lot of research and effort put into improving the service quality and impacting many lives.

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