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Economic Analysis of Ride-Sourcing Markets [PDF]
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2016 Abstract Ride-sourcing refers to an emerging urban mobility service that private car owners drive their own vehicles to provide for-hire rides. This paper analyzes the ride-sourcing market using an aggregate model where the matchings between customers and drivers are captured by an exogenous matching function.
Hai Yang, Yafeng Yin, Liteng Zha
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Ride Acceptance Behaviour of Ride-Sourcing Drivers
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2022 The performance of ride-sourcing services such as Uber and Lyft is determined by the collective choices of individual drivers who are not only chauffeurs but private fleet providers. In such a context, ride-sourcing drivers are free to decide whether to accept or decline ride requests assigned by the ride-hailing platform.
Bart van Arem +2 more
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Calibration and Validation of Matching Functions for Ride-Sourcing Markets
Communications in Transportation Research, 2022 Ride-sourcing services have become increasingly important in meeting people's mobility needs since their emergence. Compared to traditional street-hailing taxi services, ride-sourcing services significantly reduce the matching frictions in the markets by
Hai Yang, Jintao Ke, Feng Siyuan
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The ride-sourcing industry: status-quo and outlook [PDF]
Transportation Planning and Technology, 2021 Ride-sourcing, the use of private cars to provide on-demand mobility services, first appeared in San Francisco around the year 2010. Since then, transportation network companies (TNCs) who offer ride-sourcing services have expanded all around the world.
Goletz, Mirko +1 more
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On the Relocation Behavior of Ride-sourcing Drivers
Transportation Letters, 2023 Ride-sourcing drivers as individual service suppliers can freely adopt their own relocation strategies including waiting, cruising freely, or following the platform recommendations. These decisions substantially impact the balance between supply and demand, and consequently affect system performance. We conducted a stated choice experiment to study the
Ashkrof, Peyman +3 more
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Regulating ride-sourcing markets: Can minimum wage regulation protect drivers without disrupting the market? [PDF]
PLoS ONERide-sourcing platforms such as Uber and Lyft are prime examples of the gig economy, recruiting drivers as independent contractors, thereby avoiding legal and fiscal obligations.
Farnoud Ghasemi +3 more
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IATSS Research, 2021 Research provides evidence that ride-sourcing has not only substituted for private transport but also public transport. For further investigation of this substitution effect, this paper explores the travel behaviour of ride-sourcing users and those users'
Muhamad Rizki +2 more
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Optimal Parking Provision for Ride-Sourcing Services
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017 Ride-sourcing services have become increasingly important in meeting travel needs in metropolitan areas. However, the cruising of vacant ride-sourcing vehicles generates additional traffic demand that may worsen traffic conditions. This paper investigates the allocation of a certain portion of road space to on-street parking for vacant ride-sourcing ...
Zhengtian Xu, Yafeng Yin, Liteng Zha
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Understanding Ride-Sourcing Drivers' Behaviour and Preferences: Insights From Focus Groups Analysis [PDF]
Research in Transportation Business and Management, 2020 Bart van Arem +2 more
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Effect of socio-economic and demographic factors on ride-sourcing services in Dhaka City, Bangladesh
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021 Ride-sourcing services have emerged in the entire world through advancement of information technology. This service has also penetrated in the market of the developing countries similar to Bangladesh with immense potential.
Md. Hishamur Rahman +4 more
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