Published Paper Details:

Ride sharing services conveniently allows the drivers to share short to long distances trips with other riders, contributing to the benefits of travel cost, reducing traffic congestion and climate change mitigations. The existing ridesharing services depends on the centralized trust based system for the regulation of the ride set up, fare calculation, tracking, cancellation etc. These central third party authorities control and maintain data about the users, raising the issue about the data reliability and service policies. In case, this centralized based system make them subject to single point of failure and privacy disclosure concerns. Besides they demand high fees for providing the services. Blockchain based ridesharing gives us a chance to shift from the traditional centralized platforms to the decentralized ones. This work explores smart contracts to build and deploy the functionalities such as create ride, deposit transfer, cancel and complete ride method for our decentralized ride sharing application. The work also studies on how to automate the ridesharing service by using the blockchain and smart contract to harvest the benefits of decentralized collaboration and blockchain perspectives.