Where Ridehail Drivers Go Between Trips: Trading off Congestion and Curb Availability?

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• Creators:
  Millard-Ball, Adam ; Liu, Liwei ; Hansen, Whitney ; Cooper, Drew ; Castiglione, Joe
• Corporate Creators:
  University of California, Santa Cruz. Environmental Studies Department
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of California Institute of Transportation Studies
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Behavior
  • Drivers
  • Location
  • Parking
  • Ridesourcing
  • Routing
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UC-ITS-2020-15
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.7922/G2QV3JTZ
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  California;San Francisco (California)
• Edition:
  Final Report (September 2019 – January 2021)
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of California Institute of Transportation Studies
• Abstract:
  The authors analyze what ridehail drivers do when out of service between paid trips. The authors use a dataset of 5.3 million trips in San Francisco and partition each out of service trip into cruising, repositioning, and parking segments. The authors find that repositioning accounts for nearly two-thirds (63%) of the time between trips, with cruising and parking accounting for 23% and 14% respectively (these figures exclude short trips). The regression models suggest that drivers tend to make reasonable choices between repositioning and parking, heading to high-demand locations based on the time of day. However, the authors also find suggestive evidence of racial bias, supporting previous studies of both taxis and ridehailing that indicate that drivers tend to avoid neighborhoods with high proportions of residents of color.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/72319/dot_72319_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.10 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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