New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior

Re:New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior by twic on Sunday October 15, 2017 @07:26PM (#15479932)

In London, efforts have been made to make buses and trains accessible for the blind and the mobility impaired, but there are also a couple of public schemes specifically for them. Taxicard makes it easy to arrange taxi trips, and subsidises them:

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/taxicard-and-cap...

Dial-a-ride is a shared minibus:

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/dial-a-ride/

As the names hint, they have been running for years and years. I am lucky enough not to need them, and can't comment on how good they are, but i think it demonstrates that a sensible public transport authority can help less able people have the same freedom to travel as everyone else.

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Re:New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior by avani on Sunday October 15, 2017 @09:07PM (#15480230)

Those act like they're doing you a favor. "Our service will show up in an hour window if you call a day in advance, and you'd better be grateful, lesser human" I really fucking hate seperate but "equal" solutions for the disabled, and am grateful as hell I can afford to lyft everywhere I want to go.

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Re:New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior by ori_b on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:07AM (#15481198)

You are still welcome to pay full price for taxi service.

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Re:New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior by avani on Saturday October 21, 2017 @01:28AM (#15520813)

I have waited in the rain for a taxi to stop for me in Manhattan for 20min before a nearby white guy saw me and hailed one for me (and didn't let the bastard leave when he saw me). Accountability is awesome.

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