Literature Review and State of the Art Questions

Ability to search for, synthesize, and critically evaluate academic and industry research that is relevant to ride sharing and related mobility problems. Candidates should be able to summarize key paper contributions, compare and critique methodologies and evaluation protocols, identify gaps and assumptions, and position a proposed approach relative to the state of the art. This also covers understanding reproducibility and robustness standards, selecting appropriate evaluation metrics, and explaining how academic ideas could be adapted or translated into production with realistic trade offs.