Abstract
Amid social issues such as labor shortages and declining population, there are high expectations for the introduction of demand-oriented transportation. In recent years, technological innovations such as AI have led to the introduction of systems that can dispatch rides in real time, but most demand-oriented transportation systems set the deadline for reserving a ride at least 30 minutes or one hour in advance, or even the day before in some cases. Based on the hypothesis that the reservation deadline for demand-oriented transportation does not match the needs of users, this study clarified trends in the timing and means of reservations for demand-oriented transportation. Analysis of data from “knowroute Ikiminami,” which currently accepts real-time requests for reservation, revealed that immediate reservations were most common for the purpose of daily outings such as shopping and hospital visits. It was also revealed that real-time vehicle dispatch requests were more common when the days and times of trips were patterned to some extent.
