Buying Access One Trip at a Time

Brown, Anne; Klein, Nicholas J.; Smart, Michael; Howell, Amanda

doi:10.1080/01944363.2022.2027262

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“…The study also reveals that the integrated system of ride-hailing and mass public transit would be more popular among young people. Finally, others argue that under the right pricing and regulatory frameworks, ride-hailing services could potentially provide needed services and improve accessibility transit desserts and that ridehailing improve accessibility in low-income neighborhoods with low to little public transit coverage and access to cars (Brown, 2019;Brown et al, 2022;Young et al, 2020).…”

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The Potential for Ride-hailing Integration with Mass Transit Systems: A choice Experiment in Latin America

Scholl,

Lleras,

Oviedo

et al. 2024

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As transportation alternatives facilitated by TNCs (Transportation Network Companies) have gained popularity around the world, research has increasingly focused on understanding their impacts on urban mobility, with several studies examining whether they are competing with public transit trips, increasing vehicle kilometers, or contributing to congestion. Recent policy discussions have turned to whether these services could also have positive benefits, such as complementing mass transit services as a first- and last-mile solution. Most research to date has focused on industrialized countries, with little work focusing on Global South cities. Seeking to fill significant evidence gaps on the impacts of ride-hailing on travel behavior, this paper builds on a stated preference survey in three large metropolitan areas in Latin America (Bogota, Medellin, and Mexico City) to evaluate the potential of introducing an integrated scheme of ride-hailing and mass transit. The scenario of the integrated scheme places ride-hailing as a filler of the first- and last-mile gap left by mass transit. We use discrete choice models and simulations to assess the potential for modal shifts under different pricing scenarios. Results suggest limited feasibility (or modal shifts) of an integrated system of ride-hailing with mass transit under the scenarios considered. Even with significant discounts on the integrated fare, for two of the three cases, the additional ridership would remain comparatively low. Nevertheless, this opens the door for considering other app-based mobility options operating under a sharing perspective and that can reduce operative costs in an integrated scheme.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Potential for Ride-hailing Integration with Mass Transit Systems: A choice Experiment in Latin America

Scholl,

Lleras,

Oviedo

et al. 2024

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“…Also, the taxicab trips in the 2017 NHTS were more evenly distributed across socioeconomic groups compared with earlier surveys. Although such trends show the potential for ride-hailing to provide mobility options for those cannot afford cars or cannot drive cars, affordability issues for lower income people and acceptability issues for older adults may become barriers for equal access to TNCs (Brown et al, 2022;Leistner & Steiner, 2017). In sum, policymakers should consider the differences in travel patterns between higher-income vs. lower-income households, whites vs. non-whites, males vs.…”

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Socioeconomics of urban travel in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2017 NHTS

Wang

Renne

2023

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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“…Other studies using travel surveys have shown that TNCs are increasingly used as first-last mile alternatives to integrate with transit (Bedoya-Maya et al, 2022;Brown et al, 2021;Sunitiyoso et al, 2022). Along these lines, there is also growing research on ride-hailing and transportation equity, looking at whether TNCs can effectively improve the mobility conditions of low-income and disadvantaged communities (Brown et al, 2022;Jiao & Wang, 2020;Jin et al, 2019) or whether ride-hailing services end up exacerbating the gap in the urban mobility and accessibility conditions of different socioeconomic groups (Abdelwahab et al, 2021;Barajas & Brown, 2021;Brown et al, 2021).…”

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“…Transportation network companies (TNCs), such as Uber and DiDi, can help people overcome transit network gaps and improve urban accessibility without the costs of car ownership (Brown et al, 2022;Jin et al, 2018;Young & Farber, 2019). Nonetheless, even though ride-hailing services are generally faster and more convenient than transit options, they are also more expensive for single riders and out-of-pocket costs are one of the biggest barriers to ride-hail for low-income people (Brown et al, 2022). This explains in part the growing number of studies trying to understand the circumstances under which ride-hailing could compete and complement public transit (Cats et al, 2022;Hall et al, 2018;Li et al, 2021;Yan et al, 2019;.…”

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Ride-hailing and transit accessibility considering the trade-off between time and money

Pereira¹,

Herszenhut²,

Saraiva³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Ride-hailing services have the potential to expand access to opportunities, but out-of-pocket costs may limit the benefits of ride-hail for low-income individuals. This paper examines how ride-hailing services can shape spatial and socioeconomic differences in access to opportunities while accounting for the trade-off between travel time and monetary costs. Using one year of aggregate Uber trip data for Rio de Janeiro in 2019 and a new multi-objective optimization routing method, we analyze the potential for ride-hailing services to improve employment accessibility when used as a standalone transportation mode and in conjunction with transit as a first-mile feeder service. We compare the accessibility Pareto frontiers of these transport mode alternatives with cumulative opportunity measures considering multiple combinations of travel time and monetary cost thresholds. We find that, compared to transit, ride-hailing can significantly expand accessibility as a standalone transport mode for relatively short trips (between 10 and 40 minutes), and as a first-mile feeder to transit in trips longer than 30 minutes. In both cases, the accessibility advantages of ride-hailing are mostly limited by relatively higher out-of-pocket costs. When we account for different affordability thresholds, the accessibility benefits of ride-hailing services accrue mostly to high-income groups. These findings suggest that policy efforts to integrate rideshare with transit are likely not going to benefit low-income communities without some form of subsidized fare discounts to alleviate affordability barriers. The paper also highlights how accounting for trade-offs between travel-time and monetary costs can importantly influence the results of transportation accessibility and equity studies, suggesting that this issue should be addressed in future research.

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Buying Access One Trip at a Time

Cited by 16 publications

References 34 publications

The Potential for Ride-hailing Integration with Mass Transit Systems: A choice Experiment in Latin America

The Potential for Ride-hailing Integration with Mass Transit Systems: A choice Experiment in Latin America

Socioeconomics of urban travel in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2017 NHTS

Ride-hailing and transit accessibility considering the trade-off between time and money

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