The who, why, and when of Uber and other ride-hailing trips: An examination of a large sample household travel survey

Convenience and low prices have enabled ride-hailing companies, such as Uber and Lyft, to position themselves amongst the most valuable companies within the transportation sector. They now account for the lion share of activities in the platform economy and play an increasing role within our cities....

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Veröffentlicht in:Transportation research. Part A, Policy and practice Jg. 119; S. 383 - 392
Hauptverfasser: Young, Mischa, Farber, Steven
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2019
Schlagworte:
Demographics
Ride-hailing
Survey analysis
Travel behaviour
Uber
Ride-hailing
Travel behaviour
Survey analysis
Uber
Demographics
ISSN:0965-8564, 1879-2375
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Zusammenfassung:Convenience and low prices have enabled ride-hailing companies, such as Uber and Lyft, to position themselves amongst the most valuable companies within the transportation sector. They now account for the lion share of activities in the platform economy and play an increasing role within our cities. Despite this, very little is known about the type of people that use them, nor the purpose and timing of trips. In addition to this, their effect on other modes, such as taxis and public transit, remains, for the most part, widely unexplored. By comparing the socioeconomic and trip characteristics of ride-hailing users to that of other mode users, we find ride-hailing to be a wealthy younger generation phenomenon. While our results show that ride-hailing is too minute and inconsequential to influence the ridership level of other more substantial modes of travel overall, when considering specific market segments, the rise of ride-hailing corresponds to a significant decrease in taxi ridership and a rise in active modes of travel. Moreover, due to the specific age, timing, and purpose of our subsample, we believe that ride-hailing may effectively reduce drunk-driving, and are convinced that as this mode increases in importance in the future, it will have a much more pronounced effect on the level of ridership of other modes as well.
ISSN:0965-8564
1879-2375
DOI:10.1016/j.tra.2018.11.018