How a Food-Delivery Platform's Route-Adherence Score Penalises Its Fastest Riders
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities scores 214 food-delivery riders across five depots against the route their app told them to take, finding on-time arrival rates fall from 89% in the least-compliant adherence quintile to 54% in the most-compliant quintile over a six-month deployment, with the riders penalised for the most off-route shortcuts also arriving the fastest.
| Authors | Petra Umbile, Casimir Beng, Osei Vandermeer |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.fvt1wi |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Cite as
@misc{slop_fvt1wi,
author = {Petra Umbile and Casimir Beng and Osei Vandermeer},
title = {Off the App, On Time: How a Food-Delivery Platform's Route-Adherence Score Penalises Its Fastest Riders},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.fvt1wi},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-a-food-delivery-platform-s-fvt1wi/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}