Ridesharing

Status

David Booth, January 2019:

"Not that it was ever really alive — Motor Mouth has long detailed the fallacy that communal cars are the future of mobility — but what little momentum ride sharing might have once had seems to have long since dissipated. According to a new study by Cox Automotive, car sharing is actually down in America’s top mobility markets — large urban sprawls such as New York, Los Angeles and Seattle — over the last few years. There’s been a slight uptick in sharing in secondary markets, but overall, Cox research indicates that, despite all the hype in the media about an impending car-sharing revolution, car sharing is only up a few percentage points since 2015. And that’s not because people don’t know about car-sharing services; Cox says almost three-quarters of Americans are aware there is an available alternative. They simply choose not to use Zipcar, Car2Go and the like." (https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/motor-mouth-the-future-of-the-automobile-is-not-yet-written)

Example

Bandwagon

URL = http://bandwagon.io/

"Bandwagon, Mahfouda’s new ride-share service that launched at LaGuardia Airport in July, fills underutilized capacity in taxis by matching passengers who have complementary destinations and getting them into the same cab. Drivers make a better fare, passengers pay less for the same distance they would travel alone, and the idea, if it catches on, will likely amount to enormous environmental advantages over time." (http://onthecommons.org/magazine/taxi-rides-go-communal)