Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M...
by otikik on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:44AM
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A quick google gave me this: https://uber.asu.edu/ . I would be more confident if the paper was issued by an entity with no economic ties with Uber.
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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M...
by nickles on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:48AM
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It appears the paper was published two years before the partnership began. There's also no disclosure in the paper that Uber provided any funding (for whatever that's worth).
[0] https://asunow.asu.edu/20181031-asu-news-uber-and-asu-partne...
Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M...
by moorhosj on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:53PM
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The report came out in August of 2016, so the data must be from before then. The next question would be, what has happened to Uber ridership levels over that same timeframe?
According to this article [1], combined Uber and Lyft ridership in NYC was about 200,000/day in July 2016 (the most recent possible date for the original data). By July 2018, daily ridership was almost 600,000.
Is possible that Uber/Lyft lower congestion when first introduced, but worsen it over the long-run?
[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2019/01/uber-lyft-rid...