…Uber and Lyft are exploring now. The cool kids at Uber and Lyft are showing that for all their pretense of having invented something new, they live in the…
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Guest Post: Autonomous Vehicles and the VMT Problem
…whether in the Zipcar or Uber model are still not paying anywhere near the cost of using road space. Once autonomous vehicles enter the picture, ZipCar and Uber will become…
How Should Transit Agencies Respond to New Mobility Options? An Excellent Report
The rapid growth of private ridesourcing (Lyft, Uber) and microtransit (Bridj, Split) has been a challenge for local governments, including transit agencies. The tech media like to talk about private…
Our Top Ten Posts in 2016
…visionaries miss the obvious when they talk about urban transportation. Basics: Walking Distance to Transit (2010). An explainer. Sounding the Alarm about Uber’s Impacts on Transit, and on Cities. (2016)…
Portland: Transit Heroism in an Epic Snowstorm
…wasn’t canceled at the last minute. When I checked my options at 8 am, with snow still coming down hard, Lyft was nonexistent, Uber had a 20+ minute wait with…
Three Lyft Rides in a Rare Snowstorm, and Musings on “Rate Your Driver”
…Portland drivers work for both Uber and Lyft, I’m guessing an Uber experience would have been identical. My three Lyft rides gave me five interesting data points: A trip to…
Microtransit: What I Think We Know
…but there’s reason to doubt that the apps, by themselves, create a radically new business model. (Evidence that they do could include Uber being more profitable than non-cartel taxis were,…
Why Does Ridership Rise or Fall? Lessons from Canada
…deeply imbedded in the culture and politics. 2. Vancouver Shows the Effect of Network Growth, Higher Gas Prices, Great Land Use Policy, and No Uber/Lyft Vancouver’s transit ridership has historically…
Interview by “The Rideshare Guy”
Harry Campbell, who calls himself “The Rideshare Guy,” runs a blog and podcast specifically for Uber and Lyft drivers. In a new podcast, he interviews me a broad range of…
Lyft Lobbying to Keep Cities from Governing Themselves
Portland’s mayor and transportation commissioner have blasted Lyft for lobbying the State of Oregon to prevent Portland from regulating to manage the impacts of Uber and Lyft on the city….