Category Archives: ride share

Local TREND. Scooter Pilot Program. 7 points from San Antonio.

San Antonio, Texas pilot program for scooters will require scooter companies to:

  • be permitted
  • pay fees 
    • annual permit fee of $500 as well as $10 per scooter
  • no scooter cap on scooter numbers nor on companies
  • require data sharing of where scooters ar epicked up, dropped off and used to help city planners
  •  required to have a San Antonio-based fleet manager
  • 2 hour maximum for companies to address reported parking issues
  • 1 hour maximum for companies to address scooters  in restricted…

Local TREND. Ride Share Wants Tolling?

In Seattle, Uber is supporting tolling for:

  • congestion pricing 

Are they doing this elsewhere? Yes, $10 M committed nationally to support sustainable mobility

Why does ride share support congestion pricing tolls?

  • the company supports “sustainable mobility” issues
  • the company supports measures to reduce congestion

The Hill | Uber to lobby for road tolling in Seattle

Business TREND. Data Sharing partnership to Help Local Governments.

3 businesses: 

  • Ford
  • Uber
  • Lyft

have joined the data sharing project, SharedStreets, that focused on transportation that combines data from public and private sources.

Source of this data sharing project:  National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the Open Transport Partnership

Goal of the project that helps cities: help officials integrate mobility services like ride-hailing

The Drive | Ford, Uber, Lyft Join Urban Data-Sharing Project to Reduce Traffic and Pollution

New Study. Ride Share Less Likely to Take Advantage of Passengers.4 Points from the Academics in Boston.

MIT Researchers found that ride share drivers:

  • taxi drivers are more likely than Uber drivers to take advantage of a situation that offers opportunities to earn a higher fare
    • 7.4% deviation on average for airport pickups
  • when a taxi driver switched over to driving Uber, their behavior also changed to match the effect
  • Taxi drivers also tend to speed more than Uber drivers
  • Uber drivers do tend to be susceptible to detouring or driving more slowly to extend a metered airport trip when surge…

+1 Local Gov. Capping Ride Share. What you Need to Know. How. What. Where.

Where:  Miami Beach

What: Miami Beach Commissioners want to cap the number of ride shares, like NYC did

How? By asking state legislators to allow exceptions to statewide ride sahre regulations to allow for a cap or to allow for a cap and a wage requirement. The latter being the NYC approach.

What’s the argument supporting the exceptions? ride share is skirting the rules

“For a certain price, these companies circumvent home rule and buy themselves legislators who create the laws in…

How an EV rebate bill became an autonomous vehicle tax bill with this language:

California Legislature is considering AB1184 (2018 | CA). 

AB 1184 is touted as the Transportation Assistance Funding Act and intended to increase rebates for EVs and hybrids but was amended to:

  • include an autonomous vehicles riding tax for San Francisco City & County
  • 1 1/2% of net rider fares for riders who agree to share their ride sahre
  • 1 3/4 % for riders who do not agree to sharing
  • the tax revenue is dedicated to fund transportation operations and infrastructure in San Francisco County…

Local TREND. Punish Ride Share via Scooter Ordinances

A proposal in San Francisco would consider this when granting scooter licenses:

an applicant’s “past experience, including compliance with applicable laws and its efforts to ensure compliance by its users with applicable laws.”

SF Chronicle | Scooter wars: SF may penalize Lyft, Uber for ride-hail misdeeds