Between Public and Private Mobility: Examining the Rise of Technology-Enabled Transportation Services (2016) / Chapter Skim
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While it is too early to predict how these ventures will evolve and which of them will endure, the availability of on-demand transportation services through a smartphone, easily paid for by debit or credit card, is causing many people to rethink how they go about their daily travel. The term "shared mobility" as used in this report denotes sequential sharing of vehicles among users, as with taxicabs and companies such as Uber and Lyft, which provide exclusive rides to a series of passengers, and of bicycles or vehicles used serially by subscribers, as in bikesharing and carsharing.1 The term also encompasses concurrent sharing, whereby passengers headed to a common general 1 As of this writing, Uber offers ride services in a range of vehicle options that vary in price.
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In the past, it represented a larger proportion of overall travel in the United States than is the case today: carpooling was more common among commuters, some people routinely hitchhiked around the community or country, and college campuses offered ride boards for students wishing to travel during breaks. Shared mobility declined for many years as singleoccupant vehicles became the dominant form of ground transportation in the United States.
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The recent rapid expansion of technology-enabled mobility service companies -- such as Uber and Lyft, as well as a host of others -- that provide applications to link drivers and their personal vehicles with passengers has garnered headlines and raised critical questions for policy makers and regulators. These new transportation services must somehow be incorporated into long-standing regulatory frameworks built around the business models established for taxi, sedan, and limousine services (for-hire transportation)
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A committee of leading experts was appointed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to conduct a consensus study and produce a report on these issues with the following charge: Examine the growth and diversification of technology-enabled mobility services and explore the implications these services have for consumers and existing transportation services. The study will identify policy, regulatory, and other issues and opportunities that policy makers will need to consider as they plan for and regulate these services, including the existing regulatory structure for taxi, limousine, and transit services.
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Chapter 9 presents the overall conclusions resulting from this study and the committee's recommendations for policy makers and regulators who must consider whether and how to regulate these new services to serve public policy goals, and outlines research needs.
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