01582883

Monograph

http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/173511.aspx

This report analyzes how innovative transportation services, including ridesharing, carsharing, bikesharing, and microtransit, are changing mobility for millions of travelers. Such services could reduce congestion and emissions from surface transportation if regulated wisely to encourage concurrent, rather than sequential, ride sharing. Rapidly growing transportation network companies (TNCs), like Uber and Lyft, however, are disrupting conventional taxi and limousine services and raise policy challenges regarding personal security and public safety, insurance requirements, employment and labor issues, and accessibility and equity. The report offers guidance to state and local officials responsible for policy setting and regulation of for-hire transportation services in each of these areas. The report also addresses the need for greater consistency in regulations across jurisdictions and calls for TNCs to share more information about the volume, frequency, and types of trips being provided to allow for informed regulation and planning of transportation services.

Three report appendixes are available online only at http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs/173511.aspx: Appendix A: Taxonomy of Established and Emerging Personal Transportation Services; Appendix B: Taxi, Sedan, and Limousine Industries and Regulations, by Bruce Schaller; and Appendix C: Bikesharing Safety and Helmet Use

English

188p

2016

Transportation Research Board Special Report

9780309369640

Digital/other

Appendices; Figures; References; Tables

Access; Equity; Insurance; Labor; Mobility; Policy making; Regulation; Ridesharing; Ridesourcing; Safety; Security; Taxi services; Urban transportation policy; Vehicle sharing

Lyft; Uber

Microtransit

Data and Information Technology; Economics; Highways; Law; Passenger Transportation; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Policy; Public Transportation; Society

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 11 2015 3:44PM