Gender-Specific Benefits from Ride-Hailing Apps: Evidence from Uber's Entry in Chile

Lagos, Vicente; Muñoz, Ángela; Zulehner, Christine

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“…While a growing body of research finds that TNCs lead to significant changes in transportation-related outcomes such as new vehicle purchases in China ( Gong et al., 2017 ), traffic congestion ( Li et al., 2016 ), motor vehicle homicide ( Greenwood and Wattal, 2015 ; Lagos et al., 2019 ; Barrios et al., 2019 ), and passenger safety ( Chaudhry et al., 2018 ), as well as other outcomes as varied as AirBnB demand ( Zhang et al., 2018 ), entrepreneurial activity ( Burtch et al., 2018 ), and urban crime ( Weber, 2019 ), few studies have yet reached conclusions about effects of TNCs on energy and climate change-relevant outcomes like petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Both outcomes are particularly important for the transportation sector, which has long consumed the bulk of petroleum products produced and recently became a greater GHG emitter than any other sector in the U.S ( Davis et al., 2019 ).…”

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The impact of Uber and Lyft on vehicle ownership, fuel economy, and transit across U.S. cities

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The impact of Uber and Lyft on vehicle ownership, fuel economy, and transit across U.S. cities

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“…A second limitation is related to the U.S.-centric focus of our study. To date, there has been very little research on the association between ridehailing and traffic fatalities focused on countries besides the United States (the few exceptions include recent studies of Chile, Great Britain, and South Africa), yet two of Uber's top five markets (London and Sao Paulo) are not in the United States and the majority of ridehailing trips worldwide occur outside of the United States, with an estimated 70 percent in Asia alone [25][26][27][28]. Hence, future research will need to examine the association between ridehailing and traffic fatalities beyond the United States before a full accounting of the impacts of ridehailing can be determined.…”

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Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber

Brazil

Kirk

2020

PLoS ONE

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Ridehailing services such as Uber have been promoted as viable interventions for curbing alcohol-involved driving fatalities. However, evidence of ridehailing's impact has been mixed, with some studies finding no association but others finding either an increase or a decrease in fatalities. We contribute to this literature by examining more recent years of data, which capture a period during which Uber ridership has grown substantially and alcohol-involved fatalities have increased. Furthermore, we test whether the relationship between Uber availability and traffic fatalities depends on local characteristics. We employ multivariate regression models to test the association between Uber availability and total, alcohol-involved, and weekend and holiday-specific traffic fatalities in the 100 most populated metropolitan areas in the United States between 2009 and 2017. We find that Uber availability is not associated with changes in total, alcohol-involved, and weekend and holiday-specific traffic fatalities in aggregate, yet it is associated with increased traffic fatalities in urban, densely populated counties.

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“…The changes perceived in the cities where these services operate have aroused great interest among researchers who have analized, among other aspects, how these platforms influence traffic congestion (Li et al, 2016 ), the local consumption of durable goods (Gong et al, 2017 ) or local business activity (Burtch et al, 2018 ). Most of these studies focus on cities in the United States, except those conducted in Chile, South Africa, Great Britain and Spain (Huang et al, 2019 ; Lagos et al, 2019 ; Kirk et al, 2020 ; Flor et al, 2022 ). Some of these studies observe a reduction in the cases of driving under the influence of alcohol (Meyer, 2016 ; Greenwood and Wattal, 2017 ; Peck, 2017 ; Dills and Mulholland, 2018 ; Morrison et al, 2018 ; Flor et al, 2021 ).…”

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Ride-hailing services: Competition or complement to public transport to reduce accident rates. The case of Madrid

Flor

Ortuño²,

Guirao

2022

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThe transport and mobility sector is experiencing profound transformations. These changes are mainly due to: environmental awareness, the increase in the population of large urban areas and the size of cities, the aging of the population and the emergence of relevant technological innovations that have changed consumption habits, such as electronic commerce or the sharing economy. The introduction of new services such as Uber or Cabify is transforming urban and metropolitan mobility, which has to adapt to this new scenario and the very concept of mobility.ObjectiveThus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether ride-hailing platforms substitute or complement public transport to reduce accident rates, considering the two basic transport zones of Madrid: “The Central Almond” and the periphery.MethodsThe data were collected from the 21 districts of Madrid for the period 2013–2019, and they were analyzed by a Random Effects Negative Binominal model.ResultsThe results obtained in this study suggest that since the arrival of Uber and Cabify to the municipality of Madrid the number of fatalities and serious injuries in traffic accidents has been reduced. Traffic accidents on weekends and holidays, with at least one serious injury or death, have also been reduced. However, the number of minor injuries has increased in the central districts of Madrid.ConclusionOverall, what was found in this study supports the hypothesis that these services replace the urban buses. However, these services improve the supply to users with greater difficulties to access taxis or public transport, constituting an alternative mode of transport for high-risk drivers. Therefore, such findings may be quite useful for policy makers to better define regulatory policies for these services.

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Gender-Specific Benefits from Ride-Hailing Apps: Evidence from Uber's Entry in Chile

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

The impact of Uber and Lyft on vehicle ownership, fuel economy, and transit across U.S. cities

The impact of Uber and Lyft on vehicle ownership, fuel economy, and transit across U.S. cities

Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: The average and heterogeneous association of uber

Ride-hailing services: Competition or complement to public transport to reduce accident rates. The case of Madrid

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