Open-App Mileage (Dead Mileage)

Category: business

The distance a rideshare or taxi driver travels while actively searching for a fare or driving to a designated passenger pickup spot.

In on-demand transportation, dead mileage directly degrades a driver's net hourly income, as they consume fuel and accumulate vehicle wear without generating active passenger-mile revenue. Mobility algorithms focus heavily on minimizing dead mileage by deploying predictive dispatch models, which position drivers in high-probability intent corridors before a ride request is formally completed.

Common Examples

• By implementing a predictive dispatch routing pass, we slashed our contract drivers' average dead mileage by fifteen percent.
• High dead mileage records across the fleet indicate an optimization breakdown in our automated ride-matching routing layers.