Associating ridesourcing with road safety outcomes: Insights from Austin, Texas. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Improving road safety and setting targets for reducing traffic-related crashes and deaths are highlighted as part of the United Nations sustainable development goals and worldwide vision zero efforts.
Eleftheria Kontou, Noreen McDonald
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Ridesourcing platforms thrive on socio-economic inequality [PDF]
Scientific ReportsLimited available market share data seems to suggest that ridesourcing platforms benefit from, even thrive on, socio-economic inequality. We suspect that this is associated with high levels of socio-economic inequality allowing for cheap labour as well ...
Arjan de Ruijter +2 more
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Two-sided dynamics in duopolistic ridesourcing markets with private and pooled rides [PDF]
npj Sustainable Mobility and TransportNetwork effects in ridesourcing suggest fragmented (multi-platform) markets produce worse rider-driver matches than monopolistic markets. This research addresses two key gaps: (i) understanding how fragmentation costs such as longer detours for ...
Arjan de Ruijter +6 more
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on ridesourcing services differed between small towns and large cities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 To curb the spread of the ongoing 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19), authorities have adopted several non-pharmaceutical (NPIs) and pharmaceutical interventions, which significantly affected our daily activities and mobility patterns.
Nael Alsaleh, Bilal Farooq
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Innovative health care mobility services in the US [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Transportation barriers prevent millions of people from accessing health care each year. Health policy innovations such as shared savings payment models (commonly used in accountable care organizations) present financial incentives for ...
Mary K. Wolfe, Noreen C. McDonald
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Impact of Car-Sharing and Ridesourcing on Public Transport Use: Attitudes, Preferences, and Future Intentions Regarding Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Post-Soviet City [PDF]
Urban Science, 2022 The impacts of ICT-based mobility services vary in different cities, depending on socioeconomic, urban form, and cultural parameters. The impacts of car-sharing and ridesourcing on public transport have not been investigated appropriately in post-Soviet ...
Rozaliia Tarnovetckaia, Hamid Mostofi
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Determining service provider and transport system related effects of ridesourcing services by simulation within the travel demand model mobiTopp [PDF]
European Transport Research Review, 2021 Purpose Ridesourcing services have become popular recently and play a crucial role in Mobility as a Service (MaaS) offers. With their increasing importance, the need arises to integrate them into travel demand models to investigate transport system ...
Gabriel Wilkes +5 more
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Journal of Public Transportation, 2023 Low-density areas like suburbs can be challenging to serve with fixed-route transit. Demand responsive transit has been used to service these areas with mixed results, but suburban travellers may respond to ridesourcing integrated with transit more ...
Jacob Terry, Chris Bachmann
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The frequency use and the modal shift to ICT-based mobility services
Resources, Environment and Sustainability, 2022 The information and communication technology (ICT) plays an important role in improving energy consumption efficiency and reducing the emission level in the urban transport sector.
Hamid Mostofi
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Ridesourcing mode choice: A latent class choice model for UberX in Chile
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2022 As shared mobility expands, ridesourcing has become its most popular manifestation. However, users’ mode choice has not yet been sufficiently explored. Thus, this study aims to model ridesourcing mode choice across different latent classes to ascertain ...
Gustavo García-Melero +3 more
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