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23 A variety of community-level benefits and impacts go along with the operation of shared private transit services. This discussion draws on existing literature, news stories, and interviews conducted for this research to discuss the patterns observed in each category.
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24 Private Transit: Existing Services and Emerging Directions and dense urban cores (e.g., shuttles serving Chicago's downtown commuter rail terminuses or connecting DC-area rail commuters to Georgetown, which lacks a rail station)
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Private Transit Services: Benefits and Impacts 25 are shorter. Most Google employees at the New York and Boston offices commute on public transit (Google interview 2017)
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26 Private Transit: Existing Services and Emerging Directions On-Demand Commercial Services On-demand commercial services such as Via or pooled TNCs, which are so far only offered in the most densely populated service areas, may be less likely to divert drive-alone trips, since those areas see fewer such trips to begin with. To the degree that on-demand services result in rides actually being shared, on-demand services would appear likely to marginally reduce VMT compared to exclusive-ride taxi or TNC trips, although without more detailed data from the operators, it's impossible to know what proportion of rides are shared.
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Private Transit Services: Benefits and Impacts 27 The pilot and its subsequent formalization as a permanent program were successful in addressing the negative spatial impacts of private commuter shuttles, recognizing the shuttles' role in the region's transportation system while balancing these with the priorities of Muni and other street users. See Case Study I for more detail about the development of the program.
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28 Private Transit: Existing Services and Emerging Directions Looking at passenger safety in general, the number of vehicle crashes is strongly correlated with increasing mileage, and the occupants of large trucks and buses have lower rates of crash injuries and fatalities than the occupants of smaller vehicles (National Center for Statistics and Analysis 2016)
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