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@article{202444,
        author = {Natakale Dhanraj Hanumant and Saste Aditya Prakash and Salunke Vaibhav Dattatray and Sanas Adiraj Atul and Dr. Nazirkar S. B and Prof. Dr. Shah Saloni Niranajn},
        title = {RideShareX: A Decentralized Ride-Sharing Platform Using Blockchain},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {12},
        pages = {7463-7470},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=202444},
        abstract = {The emergence of ride-sharing services has revolutionized urban mobility, offering a seamless transportation experience via mobile applications. While existing solutions employ a centralized approach, leading to significant commission costs, lack of driver autonomy, and privacy challenges, blockchain-based decentralized ride-sharing systems have been suggested as possible alternatives but struggle with latency issues and scala-Bility constraints. In this study, we propose RideShareX, a novel hybrid decentralized ride-sharing system that utilizes WebSocket for real-time communication and Ethereum smart contract-based escrow payments. By decoupling ride discovery and payment settlement processes, RideShareX ensures the system’s scala-bility and decentralization properties. The framework includes geospatial filtering through the Haversine formula, deterministic wallet creation to ensure Web3 integration, publish/subscribe ride announcements, and one-time password (OTP) validation via Keccak-256 hashing. The experimental results show that RideShareX is able to maintain ride broadcast latency below 100 ms while ensuring decentralized payment transactions’ security.},
        keywords = {Ride-sharing, blockchain, smart contracts, Web-Sockets, decentralized applications, Ethereum, deterministic wal-lets},
        month = {May},
        }