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My first day at FBK has just finished, so there are some updates. I've uploaded about every document to the Wiki regarding my analysis of the papers. The Analysis Grid is available for view and as a PDF file. Chek them out at http://www.opensocialcapital.com/dynamic_carpooling/wiki/!
For the next week I'm going to review some existing mobile application. I will also contact some Opentrip members to ask them about the status of their work. I will contact the author of dynamicridesharing.org Wiki to ask him some information.

I've just finished to analyze the 12 papers of my research activity. I'm going to prepare a grid to summary and underline the main aspects. These will surely contain proposed solutions about the barriers against dynamic car pooling, UI design, social aspects and capital, security issues. We also bought the domain, that will be revealed when the WIKI will be set up

While I am waiting for my wiki to be setup, I'm updating here my first week of work. I read lots of papers regarding dynamic car pooling and friends. Most of them are listed on this MIT website and on dynamicridesharing.org. The second site is maintained by Dan Kirshner, the author of three (unlucky) experiments regarding dynamic car pooling.
I actually selected 13 publications for my scope. I'm going to publish the list as soon as I've got my wiki. What I'm going to do is to review them, comparing my work with the excellent one done by Hannes Zimmerman and Yann Stempfel (Current Trends in Dynamic Ridesharing, identification of Bottleneck Problems and Propositions of Solutions).

I've just started an internship for my University. I'm working at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, a research organization of the Autonomous Province of Trento that promotes research in the areas of science, technology, and humanities. In particular, I'm at the Center for Information Technology - Irst, in the SoNET explorative unit.
My research activity will last until the end of January and hopefully continue during the second semester, if the collaboration will be fruitful enough for a thesis.
The internship activities will focus on Dynamic Carpooling. I'm going to use my blog and the new category /carpooling-research to publish updates about the status of my research. We are going to purchase a domain that will also contain the outcomes of the research activities, available to the general public.
Here is a quick overview of the contents of my internship:

1. Dynamic Ridesharing Reviews

• Review of existing papers
• Review of existing web and mobile applications
• Review of protocols
• Research about the motivations of failure/success of existing realities

2. Release of Prototypes

• API definition for Dynamic Carpooling
• Implementation of a web application for Dynamic Carpooling
• Implementation of a mobile application for Dynamic Carpooling
• Possible integration with FBK systems