 Not Minding the Gap: Does Ride-Hailing Serve Transit Deserts?Jesus Barajas and Anne Brown No y4jwk, SocArXiv from Center for Open Science Abstract: Transit has long connected people to opportunities but access to transit varies greatly across space. In some cases, unevenly distributed transit supply creates transit service needs gaps which may impede travelers' abilities to cross space and access jobs or other opportunities. With the advent of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, however, travelers now have a new potential to gain automobility without high car purchase costs and in the absence of reliable transit service. Research remains mixed on whether ride-hailing serves as a modal complement or substitute to transit or whether ride-hailing serves to fill transit service needs gaps. This study measures transit supply in Chicago and compares it to ride-hail origins and destinations to examine if ride-hailing fills existing transit service gaps. Findings reveal clustering of ride-hail pickups and drop-offs across the City of Chicago, but that the number of ride-hail pickups and drop-offs is most strongly associated with high neighborhood median household income rather than measures of transit supply. At the same time, temporal variations in transit supply and ride-hail trips suggest that a potential complement between transit and ride-hailing exists at select times. Policymakers should consider ways to encourage ride-hailing companies to fill transit gaps in low-income communities when options to increase service are limited. Date: 2020-05-30 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:osf:socarx:y4jwk Access Statistics for this paper More papers in SocArXiv from Center for Open Science |
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