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Provide Targeted Incentives for Ridesharing to Reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled by Focusing on Particular Geographies or Population Segments.

Offer customers more than one shared product option with time delay and price points to increase the proportion of shared trips. A high degree of heterogeneity in user preferences was found in the…
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02/24/2022

Ridehailing Study Finds that Reduced Ride-Alone Trips Resulting from a $1 Per Trip Increase Would Save More Than 3.5 Billion Vehicle Miles Annually in the 15 Markets Investigated.

METHODOLOGY The study used three major data source types—TNC surveys, app-based ridesharing data, and studies in the literature about behavioral responses to changes to the price of driving and…
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Date Posted
02/23/2022

Understand the Importance of Independent Travel When Designing An AV MOD Service, Especially for Mobility-Disadvantaged Individuals.

Understand the importance of independent travel when designing an AV MOD service, especially for people with disabilities, older adults and low income households. The increased sense of…
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Date Posted
01/24/2022

An Automated Vehicle Mobility Service Pilot in Greater Phoenix Found that Users' Safety Perception of the Service Improved By 26 Percent Over the Duration of the Pilot.

METHODOLOGY People living near the metro Phoenix region were recruited to participate in the automated vehicle pilot demonstration called RideChoice. Survey samples were not randomly selected as the…
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Date Posted
01/24/2022

Simulation Model Finds That Pooled First-Mile, Last-Mile Transit Access Services Reduce VMT and Travel Time and Increase Revenues Compared to Single-Passenger Service.

Methodology The study used BA-MATSim, a Bay Area simulation model with a module that simulates the effects of automated taxi fleets. The algorithm dispatches a fleet of empty, driverless vehicles…
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Date Posted
06/28/2021

Well-Defined Standards and Metrics, Multimodal Integration, Recognizing Potential Insurance and Accessibility Issues, and Balanced Data Sharing Contribute to the Success of Shared Mobility Services.

Development of this primer was made possible by 23 specialists and practitioners that conducted an expert review of this primer and participated in a one-day workshop in June 2015 to discuss shared…
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Date Posted
05/24/2021

Literature Review on Shared Mobility Services Found Up to 33 Percent Reduction in Car Ownership, $435 in User Savings, 54 Percent Shift to Non-Motorized Travel, and 69,715 Metric Tons per Year Reduction in CO2 Emissions.

METHODOLOGY An increasing body of empirical evidence indicates that shared modes can provide numerous transportation, land use, environmental, and social benefits. While impact studies on roundtrip…
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Date Posted
05/24/2021

A California Survey of Older Adults Comfort With Ride-Hailing Found That Approximately Two-thirds of Respondents Valued Not Having to Ask for Rides or Drive at Night.

Methodology Quota sampling was used to ensure a sample that closely represented the California population of adults 55 years of age and older in terms of basic socio-demographic…
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Date Posted
04/27/2021

Account for Socioeconomic Factors and Type of Transit Service in Assessing Impacts of Ride-Hailing on Transit Deserts.

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The authors reported that there was little evidence that ride-hailing trips were associated with a low level of overall transit service. In almost all instances with statistical significance, the…
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Date Posted
02/24/2021

Compared to Conventional Trip Sharing Solutions that Spend more than Half of Trips Serving Only a Single Passenger, Models of Trip Sharing Augmented with Autonomous Vehicle Technology Indicate Ridership with Three to Four Travelers can be Maintained.

The introduction of autonomous vehicles to the "commute trip sharing problem" (CTSP) was found to serve, on average, an order of magnitude more trips than conventional vehicles. While implementing…
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Date Posted
02/25/2021