Tengilimoglu, O orcid.org/0000-0002-0043-2431 and Wadud, Z orcid.org/0000-0003-2692-8299 (2022) Evaluating the mileage and time efficiency of ridesourcing services: Austin, Texas case. Transportation Letters, 14 (5). pp. 478-491. ISSN 1942-7867
Abstract
Although several studies have attempted to determine the mileage and time inefficiency of ridesourcing services due to concerns about traffic and environmental impacts of these services, all of them provide a point estimate, which does not reflect the uncertainties in the calculation of these estimates. As such this study aims to present the efficiencies as ranges, based on lower and upper limits by identifying drivers' daily activity schedule. Based on an analysis of 200 busiest RideAustin drivers’ trips data (around 282,037 trips over a 6 months period from 1 October 2016) the study finds that the mileage efficiency ranges from 44.3% to 71.6%, while time efficiency ranges from 42.8% to 58.4%. This means that for every 100-miles of a fare-payer passenger, drivers must travel an additional 40 to 126 miles empty. The heterogeneity of the efficiency at the driver level and the efficiency in the temporal dimension were also considered.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Ridesourcing; ride-hailing; transport network companies; deadheading; empty miles; efficiency |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Chemical & Process Engineering (Leeds) The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2021 14:20 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jul 2022 14:27 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/19427867.2021.1892936 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:171684 |