Uber Supply-Demand Gap Assignment

Presented by Rajan Kumar

Q1: Visually identify the most pressing problems for Uber

From the plot, As we can see more than 50 % of the request gets
cancelled or no cars available.

Also, Trip originating from Airport to city has more no car

available.
Q2. Find out the gap between supply and demand and show the same using plots.

From below plots, we can see that there is a lot of demand between the timings 5 to 9 pm but the supply is too low. we can see that more bookings from the city are
being made between 5 to 9 am and 5 to 9 pm at the airport.
Q3. What do you think is the reason for this issue for the supply-demand gap?

This plot describes the count of the status of trips in different parts of
day, there are almost 700 trips completed during morning and
nights while most cabs are also canceled during the morning and
early mornings and the demand for cabs are mostly found during
Nights and we can see that there no cabs available at that time
interval, which leads to loss for both company and customer.

Also, we can see that during the time interval 4 to 9 am there is

more demand in the city while the supply is too low, now when you
look at an airport the supply during this time frame is high while
demand is low. And similarly, there is more demand in the airport
between 4 pm and 11 pm while supply is low, in the city during this
time interval there is more supply and less demand.
Q4. Recommend some ways to resolve the supply-demand gap.

In order to meet the supply-demand gap, one thing we can do is that we can assist few cab drivers to move towards the airport from the city during 4 pm to 11 pm
timings as there are more demand and less supply in the airport and less demand and more supply in the city during that time frame. similarly, during 4 am to 9 am
there is more demand in the city than the airport and hence we can assist some cab drivers to go towards the city during that time interval to meet the demand
rather than waiting at the airport where demand is less and supply is more. This way we can reduce the supply-demand gap and which eventually is profitable to
both customers and the company.
Thank You.