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Careem: A car within 15 minutes

Olsson, Jörgen and Rigner, Erik (2013) MIO920
Production Management
Abstract
Background: Careem FFZ Ltd is a technology startup within the ground
transportation industry based in Dubai, U.A.E, initially
focusing on the chauffeur driven personal transport segment.
In an industry with a fairly low utilization rate and poor
customer experience overall the company aims at setting a
new benchmark for customer service. Being a first mover on
the market with an on-demand smartphone enabled booking
service aims at overcoming many of these deficiencies.
Purpose: A key success factor to a high customer satisfaction and a
broad market penetration is to minimize the lead-time from a
point of booking until the car arrives. The main purpose of
this thesis has been to analyze the problem and establish
models and tools... (More)
Background: Careem FFZ Ltd is a technology startup within the ground
transportation industry based in Dubai, U.A.E, initially
focusing on the chauffeur driven personal transport segment.
In an industry with a fairly low utilization rate and poor
customer experience overall the company aims at setting a
new benchmark for customer service. Being a first mover on
the market with an on-demand smartphone enabled booking
service aims at overcoming many of these deficiencies.
Purpose: A key success factor to a high customer satisfaction and a
broad market penetration is to minimize the lead-time from a
point of booking until the car arrives. The main purpose of
this thesis has been to analyze the problem and establish
models and tools to make sure this goal is fulfilled. Ultimately
this has been an issue of matching demand and supply
efficiently.
Theory: The theoretical framework used has centered on clustering
analysis to analyze the geographical scope of the demand.
Time series models such as autoregressive AR, ARMA and
neural networks models in an attempt to develop prediction
models for the intensity scope of the demand.
Results: The results produced have been encouraging but have also
witnessed of the complexity of the problem. Regarding the
geographical scope the clustering analysis proved a good tool
to pinpoint where the demand appears. Out of the time series
models applied only the AR model produced satisfactorily
results but quite surprisingly a 4-week average model well.
12
By implementation of this prediction model as input to a
separate supply model developed Careem now have a datadriven
model for real-time decision-making. (Less)
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author
Olsson, Jörgen and Rigner, Erik
supervisor
organization
course
MIO920
year
type
M1 - University Diploma
subject
keywords
Demand, Supply, On-demand, Real-time, AR, ARMA, Neural Networks, Clustering, Taxi, Transportation.
other publication id
13/5455
language
English
id
3917354
date added to LUP
2013-07-03 14:18:46
date last changed
2013-07-03 14:18:46
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  abstract     = {{Background: Careem FFZ Ltd is a technology startup within the ground
transportation industry based in Dubai, U.A.E, initially
focusing on the chauffeur driven personal transport segment.
In an industry with a fairly low utilization rate and poor
customer experience overall the company aims at setting a
new benchmark for customer service. Being a first mover on
the market with an on-demand smartphone enabled booking
service aims at overcoming many of these deficiencies.
Purpose: A key success factor to a high customer satisfaction and a
broad market penetration is to minimize the lead-time from a
point of booking until the car arrives. The main purpose of
this thesis has been to analyze the problem and establish
models and tools to make sure this goal is fulfilled. Ultimately
this has been an issue of matching demand and supply
efficiently.
Theory: The theoretical framework used has centered on clustering
analysis to analyze the geographical scope of the demand.
Time series models such as autoregressive AR, ARMA and
neural networks models in an attempt to develop prediction
models for the intensity scope of the demand.
Results: The results produced have been encouraging but have also
witnessed of the complexity of the problem. Regarding the
geographical scope the clustering analysis proved a good tool
to pinpoint where the demand appears. Out of the time series
models applied only the AR model produced satisfactorily
results but quite surprisingly a 4-week average model well.
12
By implementation of this prediction model as input to a
separate supply model developed Careem now have a datadriven
model for real-time decision-making.}},
  author       = {{Olsson, Jörgen and Rigner, Erik}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Careem: A car within 15 minutes}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}