Category Archives: ride share

Local Trend. Ordinance to Reign in Ride Share Price Surging. 3 Bits informed:intel

Chicago City Council, like other cities, is looking to reign in ride share price surging. Here’s the policy plan in Chicago:

surge pricing cap implementation to offset companies that use predatory pricing
surge price cap would be 150% of a regular fare during the 7 days before the unforeseen emergency
unforeseen emergency would be defined as “any actual or threatened terrorist attack, mass shooting, major disruption in public transportation, failure or shortage or electric power and…

Posted byadminAugust 31, 2017Posted inlocal government, ride share, sharing economy

Editorial. 3 Reasons to Slow Down on Self Driving Car Laws

Detroit. Motor City. An editorial board at the Detroit News isn’t keen on rapidly legislating self driving cars because:

Market Drivers.to develop the right policies we need clear signals from the market about what aspects of self driving cars will win the day
Infrastructure Needs. need to ensure that the legislature creates the infrastructure to maintain Dedicated Short Range Communications radios that communicate between self driving cars and the infrastructure
Public Private…

Posted byadminAugust 25, 2017Posted inlegislative trend, motor vehicles, ride share, self driving cars

Regulatory Trend. Company Investigated. Company Agrees to 20 Years of Audits.

Today’s transportation companies collect a lot of data about consumers. Alleging that Uber “failed consumers”, the Federal Trade Commission settled a data privacy investigation by Uber agreeing to 20 years of privacy audits.

CNBC | Uber agrees to 20 years of privacy audits after FTC says it ‘failed consumers’

Posted byadminAugust 16, 2017Posted inregulatory trend, ride share, sharing economy

TREND. +1 Way Local Governments are Utilizing Ride Share for Services.

Boston instituted a pilot program for ride share to help with paratransit that subsidizes rides on Uber and Lyft.

What business traits do paratransit need:

well-trained drivers
smart dispatch
flexibility: multiple stops & a wide range of physical limitations

Philly.com | Should Philly follow Boston and remake paratransit with ride hailing?

Posted byadminAugust 14, 2017Posted in2017 issue, local government, ride share, sharing economy

Local Trend. Ordinances on Ads in Ride Share.

Chicago prohibits advertisements in ride share vehicles.

A company that offers entertainment services (video games & ad content; not prostitution) sued claiming that the ordinance violates equal protection clause of the US Constitution because it does not apply to taxis or other vehicles.

The case is progressing in federal courts after surviving motions to kick the case out of court.

Courthouse News Service | Judge Doesn’t Like Chicago’s Ban on Ads in Ubers

Posted byadminAugust 13, 2017Posted inlegal trend, local government, ride share, sharing economy

TREND. Amend statewide ride share laws with more reporting. Safety First.

After passing statewide ride share laws states, like North Dakota, seek to amend their laws.

What do states want to change about their ride share laws?

More detailed information about ride share driver incidents
Greater detail on the severity of incidents
Ensure disclosure of the number of traffic violations
More details about the statewide number of drivers to compare the incidents to those in the overall driving public

WDAZ | Lawmakers may boost reporting requirements for Uber, Lyft next…

Posted byadminAugust 8, 2017Posted in2017 issue, 2017 legislation, legislative trend, ride share, sharing economy, transportation safety

Local Trend. Statewide Ride Share law. Local Ballot to Accept Ride Share. At issue: Local Taxes.

The October ballot in Ketchikan Alaska will ask its citizens whether to permit ride share operators.

Alaska has a statewide rideshare law, but a skeptical mayor and city council want local input.

The skepticism, you ask? Whether ride share companies will remit local sales taxes.

SF Chronicle | Alaska city leaders put ride-sharing ban on ballot

Posted byadminAugust 6, 2017Posted in2017 issue, legislative trend, local government, ride share, sharing economy, taxes

Local Trend. City Transportation Plan Blocks Ride Share on Certain Streets.

San Francisco’s revamp of Market St. will limit vehicle stopping to commercial deliveries and taxis.

How does this work? Think of bus lanes and bike lanes. The curb side lanes would be limited to commerical deliveries and taxis.

SFist | Uber And Lyft Permanently Banned From Most Of Market Street Under New Plan

Posted byadminAugust 4, 2017Posted inlocal government, ride share, roads, sharing economy

Legal Trend. Cabbies lose in Court. Louisiana edition.

Cab drivers in the City of Kenner, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana sued to level the playing field in Kenner and at its airport.

The cab drivers ultimately want ride share drivers to maintain the same occupational license as cab drivers. Teh city of Kenner said it didn’t have the resources or revenue for enforcement. The cab drivers suggested the city put up checkpoints to check licenses.

The Kenner court saw it differently.

WWLTV Louisiana | Judge rules against Kenner cabbies