Research

This room contains the latest research about the sharing economy, in specific about shared mobility.

App-Based Ride and Taxi Services: Principles for Regulation

26/03/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
This research provides and overview of the regulatory domain of ride-hailing apps and for-hire passenger transport, considering the different stakeholders involved in the decision making process.

Shared Mobility Simulations for Auckland

26/03/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
The International Transport Forum investigates shared transport opportunities in the Aukland area, and how it affects accessibility, public transport, parking spaces and emissions.

Autonomous Shared Mobility-On-Demand: Melbourne Pilot Simulation Study

26/03/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
Feasibility of using agent-based simulation tools to model the impacts of shared autonomous vehicles.

Uber versus Taxi: A Driver’s Eye View

11/04/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
A research which discusses the compensation required to make drivers indifferent between ride-hailing and traditional taxi compensation contract

Car-sharing in the Netherlands: trends, user characteristics and mobility effects

12/06/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
The report provides insights about the car-sharing market in the Netherlands, and what can be learned from other countries' example.

An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber’s Driver-Partners in the United States

18/06/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
This paper from Princeton University provides the first comprehensive analysis of Uber’s driver-partners, based on both survey data and anonymized, aggregated administrative data.

Inside the Sharing Economy: Understanding consumer motivations behind the adoption of mobile applications

18/06/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
Zhu et al. explore how different factors – such as self-efficacy, emotional value, and risk – effect consumers’ perceptions of ridesharing apps.

The Emergence of the Sharing Economy: The Response Strategies of Pre-existing Taxi Industry Affected by Uber’s Disruption

18/06/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
Kim and Lee’s research finds that, in New York City, greater competition from Uber has led to an increase in consumer welfare, without a corresponding decrease in taxi revenues.

The New Collaborative Mobility Actors: From Promises to Challenges for Public Authorities

18/06/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
[FRENCH] Brimont et al. examine how public authorities can work with carsharing firms to reduce the environmental and financial costs of private vehicle travel.

Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber

18/06/2018Sharing Cities Alliance Support
Using data supplied by Uber, Cohen et al. estimate that the consumer surplus generated by UberX in the United States in 2015 was $6.8 billion.