Dynamic ridesharing has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its numerous benefits. Existing ridesharing algorithms often employ a “filter-and-refine” frame-work, where a large set of candidate vehicles is initially selected for each ride order, followed by computationally intensive route planning for each candidate. However, this process can lead to significant response delays and limit system efficiency. To address this challenge, we propose an order-vehicle pre-matching recommendation approach (PreMR) that refines the candidate set before route planning. PreMR leverages spatial-temporal intervals and a self-attention mechanism to encode diverse order and vehicle information into uniform and informative representations, enabling it to accurately identify the most suitable vehicles for each order. Extensive experiments using real-world datasets and four representative ridesharing algorithms demonstrate that PreMR significantly reduces order response time (by 46.78% on average) while maintaining high service quality, with a slight trade-off in the order completion rate.

Characterizing human driver's driving behaviors from GPS trajectories is an important yet challenging trajectory mining task. Previous works heavily rely on high-quality GPS data to learn such driving style representations through deep neural networks. However, they have overlooked the driving contexts that greatly govern drivers' driving activities and the data sparsity issue of practical GPS trajectories collected at a low-sampling rate. Besides, existing works omit the cold start problem, where the newly joined drivers usually have insufficient data to learn accurate driving style representations. To address these limitations, we present an adversarial driving style representation learning approach, named$\mathtt {Radar}$. In addition to summarizing statistic features from raw GPS data,$\mathtt {Radar}$also extracts contextual features from three aspects of road condition, geographic semantic, and traffic condition. We exploit the advanced semi-supervised generative adversarial networks to construct our learning model. By jointly considering statistic features and contextual features, the trained model is able to efficiently learn driving style representations from practical GPS trajectory data. Furthermore, we enhance$\mathtt {Radar}$'s representation learning for drivers owning limited training data with some basic data augmentation strategies and a novel auxiliary driver based data augmentation method. Experiments on two benchmark applications,i.e., driver identification and driver number estimation, with a large real-world GPS trajectory dataset demonstrate that$\mathtt {Radar}$can outperform the state-of-the-art approaches by learning more effective and accurate driving style representations.