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Multi-hop ride sharing could be a promising solution for several problems caused by traffic, especially in peak hours. In this article, we prove that Multi-hop ride sharing is an NP-Complete problem, which is also a simplified version of other problems in the state of the art, and currently do not have either an NP-Completeness proof or an NP-Hard proof for the optimization version of this problem; therefore this paper can be used as proof for these problems.

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Romero-Guzmán, J.A., Terán-Villanueva, J.D., Ponce-Flores, M.P., Santiago-Pineda, A.A. (2023). Multihop Ridesharing \(\in \) NPC. In: Rivera, G., Cruz-Reyes, L., Dorronsoro, B., Rosete, A. (eds) Data Analytics and Computational Intelligence: Novel Models, Algorithms and Applications. Studies in Big Data, vol 132. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38325-0_15

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