Modeling and Prediction of Ride-Sharing Utilization Dynamics

Figure 4

The distribution of nodes degrees in the taxi rides network, representing the number of possible destinations a passenger boarding a taxi at some location in the city may chose to go to. Note the surprisingly high number of origins with very low degrees – number of possible destinations. The nodes’ degrees are unaffected by the size or shape of the actual geographic region they refer to as all nodes refer to equally-sized square patches of the city.