Ridesourcing, the sharing economy, and the future of cities

Jin, Scarlett T.; Kong, Hui; Wu, Rachel J; Sui, Daniel Z.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.01.012

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“…Despite these widespread beliefs, there is not yet empirical evidence on these claims, apart from car sharing where substantial reductions in CO 2 -emissions are realized (Chen and Kockelman 2015;Nijland and Van Meerkerk 2017). For ride-sourcing services (for example, Uber), however, there is evidence that it often substitutes for public transport and does not decrease congestion (Jin et al 2018). The standard argument on eco-impacts addresses substitutions among types of goods or services that have different technologies.…”

Section: Assessing the Sharing Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting the sharing economy into perspective

Frenken¹,

Schor²

2019

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

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Section: Assessing the Sharing Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting the sharing economy into perspective

Frenken¹,

Schor²

2019

A Research Agenda for Sustainable Consumption Governance

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“…The popularity of the Internet and social networks have made the sharing economy develop rapidly in modern city life [1]. Internet-based sharing economy, such as shared rentals, shared cars, and shared bicycles, offers many kinds of smart services to cities, becoming an intrinsic feature of smart cities [2,3]. Among all sharing economy products, shared short-term rentals have become a recent focus, because of the rapid development of the sustainable-tourism industry [4,5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Shared Short-Term Rentals for Sustainable Tourism in the Social-Network Age: The Impact of Online Reviews on Users’ Purchase Decisions

Zhao

Peng

2019

Sustainability

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With the development of social networks and the Internet-based sharing economy, shared short-term rentals are emerging as a new kind of service that provides a convenient way for people to buy short-term rental services in cities through social-network-enabled platforms. However, like other social-network-based services, shared short-term rental is also likely to be impacted by online reviews. This paper aims to investigate the impact of online reviews on users' purchase decisions toward shared short-term rentals, and further to provide optimization suggestions for the future advance of shared short-term rentals. The contributions of this paper are many-fold. First, we introduce the Stimuli-Organism-Response (SOR) model into the study and propose new variables for the model, including stimulus variables, organism variables, response variable, and moderating variables. Second, we propose eight hypotheses to evaluate the impact of online reviews on users' purchase decisions toward shared short-term rentals. Finally, we collect data through a questionnaire survey and present comprehensive results on many aspects. Based on the data analysis, we find out that the quality of online reviews impacts users' perceived value and perceived risk, which in turn impacts users' purchase decisions toward shared short-term rentals. In addition, the cognitive needs of users can adjust the impact of online reviews on the perceived risk of users but have no explicit adjusting effect for users' perceived value. Further, we present some research implications as well as suggestions for rental platforms to advance shared short-term rentals in the Internet age.

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“…According to previous studies, unlike taxi trips that usually begin in downtown areas, ride-hailing trips often originate in outlying suburban neighborhoods [4]. Previous studies recommend on-demand ride services as a more feasible and cost-efficient substitute to traditional fixed-route transit options in low density neighborhoods [16]. However, previous studies have not particularly differentiated the impacts of employment density and residential density on ride-sourcing trips.…”

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“…This is often due to key challenges, such as determining an appropriate local strategy for an e-hailing platform, and also frequent cancellations by passengers [15]. According to a study by Jin et al [16], ride-hailing impacts the efficiency, equity, and sustainability of cities. While ride-hailing offers economic efficiency in many cases [17], there have been issues reported related to discrimination and security among riders and drivers.…”

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Individuals’ Demand for Ride-hailing Services: Investigating the Combined Effects of Attitudinal Factors, Land Use, and Travel Attributes on Demand for App-based Taxis in Tehran, Iran

Etminani-Ghasrodashti

Hamidi

2019

Sustainability

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Despite the growing body of research on ride-hailing travel behaviors in Western countries, empirical evidence for changes in travel patterns resulting from the use of app-based services in developing countries remains rare. This study explores factors affecting an Iranian on-demand ride service called Snapp Taxi by using a comprehensive dataset collected from 22 municipality zones in metropolitan Tehran (N = 582). Our conceptual framework emphasizes the transportation mode choice effects of technology adoption, travel mode, ride-sourcing attributes, individual attitudes, land use measures, residential attributes, and socio-economic characteristics of the respondents. Results from Structural Equation Models (SEM) show that factors such as cost effectiveness, trip security, anti-shared mobility, and technology-oriented riders have a significant impact on travel mode choice and the frequency of ride-hailing trips. This study suggests that individuals who prefer driving and semi-public transit also have higher numbers of Snapp trips than other demographics. According to our findings, on-demand ride services could complement or compete with other modes of transport, especially in areas with limited access to public transit. However, the presence of ride-hailing services does not necessarily result in fewer car trips if the service operates as a private (single-party occupancy) vehicle and not as a shared mobility option.

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Ridesourcing, the sharing economy, and the future of cities

Cited by 296 publications

References 27 publications

Putting the sharing economy into perspective

Putting the sharing economy into perspective

Shared Short-Term Rentals for Sustainable Tourism in the Social-Network Age: The Impact of Online Reviews on Users’ Purchase Decisions

Individuals’ Demand for Ride-hailing Services: Investigating the Combined Effects of Attitudinal Factors, Land Use, and Travel Attributes on Demand for App-based Taxis in Tehran, Iran

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