Category Archives: business trend

Business Trend: Ride Share + Land Use for Business Expansion. Win for ride share. Win for Business.

Where: Nashville, TN

The Business Rethinking Land Use, Parking Requirements & Transportation: Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group

What did Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group Leverage to be granted a variance from parking space requirements for its building epxansion?  The unanimous variance was granted for TriStar to partner with ride share to “pay monthly rates for the commutes for 23 employees, equal to the number of parking spaces” lost to the building expansion

Nashville…

TREND: Ride Share Gets New Ally in Empire State + 1 Counter punch

The brewing industry joins law enforcement supporting a push to extend ride share statewide in New York.

Brewers support ride share because:

  • boost the local economy
  • promote safety
  • help minimize downtown parking concerns

The counter punch from an association representing the taxi industry:

“Calling an Uber shouldn’t be the same as calling a criminal,” said John Tomassi, president of the Upstate Transportation Association. 

WHAM ABC 13 Rochester | Brewing industry joins push for…

Business Trend: Ride Share for Big Trucks. Bonjour Regulatory Fight.

Which company is looking at a ride share for trucking? Amazon

Business goal for trucking:  global freight broker

How would ride share for rucking work?

  • App based 
  • Capable of matching available trucks to shipments
  • Could move cargo from a seaport hub to a distribution center or move cargo from a warehouse to a parcel-delivery facility.

What other transportation moves has Amazon made in 2016?

  • Leases on 40 cargo jets
  • Registered to arrange ocean cargo
  • Build out of its last mile…

Ride Share + Health Care. 3 Bytes Intel on this Nascent Partnership.

Business Partnership trend: Uber and MedStar are partnering to bring patients to appointments

How does this partnership stack up against using taxis to get to appointments?

  • Taxis are more expensive
  • Taxis are operationally more difficult to include in health care transportation
  • taxi drivers are said not to go the extra mile for patients

How does the partnership address low income patients without a smart phone? Healthcare providers request & manage rides on behalf of their patients

…

Trendspotting. Ride Share for Seniors & Visually Impaired.

The business model:

  • Non-profit 
  • Ride share for people who are 60 and over & any adult with a visual impairment
  • Riders create a membership and fund a personal transportation account
  • Drivers earn credits that can be used later for rides

Lexington Herald Leader |  It’s like Uber for seniors — complete with ‘arm-through-arm’ walk to the door

 

TREND. Ride Share your own car. Let someone else Drive. +1 Car Maker.

The car maker: toyota

The owenr based ride share program:   Hourly or daily rental by allowing users to unlock the cars with their smartphones via Bluetooth

How does it work: Via App

Where is it piloting? San Francisco based Get Around will pilot the App and vehicle sharing. Get Around operates also in Austin, TX.

The legislative issue: Insuring & liability issues related to personal “rental car sharing.” What happens when a car is “rented” out and the car runs a red light camera…

Business TREND. Ride Share Meet Car Share.

New trend in the auto sharing economy: Car share.

How does it work: 

  • Dolph drives his car to his enginnering job.
  • Dolph logs into an App & marks his car available for sharing until 5pm.
  • Brigette needs to drive to her office running the world. 
  • Brigette finds available cars, selects Dolph’s car & returns it by 5pm.

What company is promiting car sharing? Lynk & Co

Legislative, Legal, and Regulatory Questions: How do you insure Brigette’s drive?

Car and Driver |  Lynk & Co Shows…