Real-time carpooling and ride-sharing: Position paper on design concepts, distribution and cloud computing strategies

Many carpool and ride-sharing solutions have been proposed and even developed in the previous decades, but rarely have they been able to attain a global user base, at least not up until recently. That was mostly because many of them were not initially designed as scalable, leaving their users with a sub-par user experiences as their user base grew, and often their mobile or desktop client reach was not ubiquitous enough, leaving them available only to a small portion of mobile client devices and/or desktop browsers. This paper describes the design concepts, distribution and cloud computing strategies the authors feel any future global carpool and ride-sharing solution could follow, making it very scalable and ubiquitous enough to successfully reach and serve a global user base.