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The safety regulation of the ridesharing industry involves many parties, including governments, platform companies, and society at large. Currently, because of the influence of information asymmetry, it increases the uncertainty of governments\u2019 regulation effect and the difficulty of making regulation measures. Meanwhile, social media, one of the most important forces of social regulation, has not paid enough attention to playing an appropriate role in the safety regulation of the ridesharing industry. Therefore, this study constructs an evolutionary game model between governments and platform companies that concerns the safety regulations of ridesharing passengers under social media participation. The influence path of social media is explored by model solution and numerical simulation. Our results indicate that social media participation has a positive impact on this safety regulation. Specifically, social media participation could reduce governments\u2019 regulatory costs and encourage it to strictly regulate. The exposure of social media could bring losses to platform companies involved and promote platform companies\u2019 investments in improving passengers\u2019 safety. This study provides a decision basis for governments to introduce social media in the safety regulation of the ridesharing industry.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym12040560","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,9]],"date-time":"2020-04-09T03:40:19Z","timestamp":1586403619000},"page":"560","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Dynamic Evolution of Safety Regulation of the Ridesharing Industry under Social Media Participation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Qipeng","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi Universities, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Integrated Transportation Economics and Management Research Center, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"}]},{"given":"Tingzhen","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi Universities, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Integrated Transportation Economics and Management Research Center, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"}]},{"given":"Fei","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi Universities, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Integrated Transportation Economics and Management Research Center, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaozhuang","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi Universities, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Integrated Transportation Economics and Management Research Center, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"}]},{"given":"Sijie","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi Universities, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"},{"name":"Integrated Transportation Economics and Management Research Center, Chang\u2019an University, Xi\u2019an 710064, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,4,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"850","DOI":"10.1287\/trsc.2017.0768","article-title":"Stable matching for dynamic ride-sharing systems","volume":"52","author":"Wang","year":"2017","journal-title":"Transp. 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