Abstract:Differentiated services and competition have made the operation of ride‐hailing platforms (i.e., Uber and Didi) more complex. Timely optimizing their pricing strategies will be conducive to the profitability of the platform enterprises. This paper considers the differentiation in service level of two ride‐hailing brands and the Bertrand price competition between platforms, and we propose dynamic, differentiated, and static pricing strategies based on the market demand fluctuation. The optimal prices in each ca… Show more
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