Implications of ride-sourcing and self-driving vehicles on the need for regulation in unscheduled passenger transport

Jørgen Aarhaug and Silvia Olsen

Research in Transportation Economics, 2018, vol. 69, issue C, 573-582

Abstract: The recent emergence of large-scale ride-sourcing services, such as Uber and Lyft, is a major development in passenger transport. By utilizing fleets of private cars and app technology, these services call into question the definitions of private and commercial transport and challenge the existing transport framework in multiple ways. By operating between commercial and private services, they are partly outside the control of governments and, to some extent, contravene current regulations.

Keywords: Regulation; Taxi; Ride-sourcing; Scenarios; Unscheduled passenger transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D23 D43 D72 J00 K00 L00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.retrec.2018.07.026

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