A duopoly of transportation network companies and traditional radio-taxi dispatch service agencies

Thorsten Heilker () and Gernot Sieg
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Thorsten Heilker: Institute of Transport Economics, Muenster

No 24, Working Papers from Institute of Transport Economics, University of Muenster

Abstract: Transportation network companies commonly enter the market for taxi ride intermediation and alter the market outcome. Compared to cooperatively organized radio-taxi dispatch service agencies, transportation network companies run larger fleets and serve more customers with lower fares, when the fixed costs of the dispatch office are relatively small. The same holds for private dispatch firms, when the fixed costs of a taxicab are not too small. These results are shown in a two-stage duopoly of fare and fleet size competition with fare- and waiting-time-dependent demand.

Keywords: digitization; regulatory capture; taxi dispatch market; transportation network companies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 L22 L91 R41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2017-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-com, nep-pay, nep-reg, nep-tre and nep-ure
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Forthcoming in European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research

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