Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?
By Jonathan D. Hall, Craig Palsson, Joseph Price. Journal of Urban Economics, 2018
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Abstract How Uber affects public transit ridership is a relevant policy question facing cities worldwide. Theoretically, Uber’s effect on transit is ambiguous: while Uber is an alternative mode of travel, it can also increase the reach and flexibility of public transit’s fixed-route, fixed-schedule service. We estimate the effect of Uber on public transit ridership using a difference-in-differences design that exploits variation across U.S. metropolitan areas in both the intensity of Uber penetration and the timing of Uber entry. We find that Uber is a complement for the average transit agency, increasing ridership by five percent after two years. This average effect masks considerable heterogeneity, with Uber increasing ridership more in larger cities and for smaller transit agencies.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Transportation
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Citations in the corpus
- Understanding the Recent Transit Ridership Decline in Major US Cities: Service Cuts or Emerging Modes? (2019, result): “35 36 Our research also suggests that past research findings that TNCs and other emerging modes 37 either increase or do not affect transit ridership (11, 25, 26, 38) are likely incorrect.”
- Does ride-hailing increase or decrease vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT)? A simulation approach for Santiago de Chile (2020, background): “More empirical evidence on the effects of ride-hailing on traffic is provided by Hall et al. (2018), Li et al. (2016), and Clewlow and Mishra (2017).”
- How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies (2020, background): “It also includes recent innovations like ride sharing which have reduced the cost of travel within a metropolitan area (Hall, 2018).”