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A Wharton School of Business, President Trump’s Alma Matter, features an interview with Wharton’s Kevin Wherbach offering these tips and examples to foster nascent industry:
The city seeking ride share data: New York City
What the city did to get to the data: Adopted regulations to require ride share companies to provide the city with drop off location data
The policy goal: Combat driver fatigue by keeping taxi, Uber and other for-hire-vehicle drivers from working more than 10 hours straight.
Crains New York Business | City to Uber and Lyft: Hand over your trip data
The State: Massachusettes
Why did the taxis sue to enjoin the law? They said the statwide regualtion of ride share companies treats taxis unequally
Why did a judge throw out a taxi lawsuit? There is no equal protection issue for taxis and ride share companies.
The legalese: The state “differentiating between TNCs and taxicabs is rationally related to a legitimate government interest in ‘fostering a diverse’ transportation-for-hire market,”
Which state’s House of Representatives swiftly passed a state wide regulatory structure for ride share companies? Missouri
What are the requirements of Missouri’s Ride Share Bill?
What arguments did the bill sponsor use?
What group opposes self driving cars? An association of taxi and limo drivers, The Upstate Transportation Association
Where: New York
What is the anti-self-driving car group calling for? a 50 year moratorium on self driving cars in NY
Why the leap to self driving car opposition? Because the President of a Ride Share company tied to the 2 issues together in a letter
Fortune | Taxi Drivers’ New Uber Defense: Lobby for Self-Driving Car Bans
When did Nebraska create a statewide regulatory framework for ride share? 2015
What legislation was passed? LB 629 (2015)
Tell me what I need to know about this new report on how the statewide regualtions impacted taxis?
The Legislative standard: No finger print requirement for ride share, if ride share comapnies could shoe regulators that their background checks were just as effective.
The regulators respond with: Increased safety measures and reporting requirements for ride share companies, such as:
Annual background checks on all drivers
Auditing and accrediting by an arm of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners
Alerting regulators to any changes to their…
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
The brewing industry joins law enforcement supporting a push to extend ride share statewide in New York.
Brewers support ride share because:
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.
The lawsuit: Federal lawsuit over whether California regulations on ride share unfairly disadvantage taxis
The issues raised by a Judge questioning whether ride share regulations harm taxi cabs: