Factors Influencing Willingness to Pool in Ride-Hailing Trips

Hou, Yi; Garikapati, Venu; Weigl, Dustin; Henao, Alejandro; Moniot, Matthew; Sperling, Joshua

doi:10.1177/0361198120915886

Factors Influencing Willingness to Pool in Ride-Hailing Trips

Journal Article · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198120915886· OSTI ID:1659859

Hou, Yi ^[1]; ^[1]; Weigl, Dustin ^[1]; ^[1]; Moniot, Matthew ^[1]; Sperling, Joshua ^[1]

National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

In the past decade, transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber, Lyft, and Via have established themselves as a viable transportation alternative to other modes. However, the popularity of these services has come with a fair share of criticism for their negative externalities such as increasing vehicle miles traveled and congestion in cities. Pooled ride-hailing trips, in which all or a part of two individual (or group) trips are combined in and served by a single vehicle, have the potential to reduce these externalities. Pooling of rides is an effective solution to reduce congestion and travel cost, but pooled rides still represent a small percentage of the total trips served (and miles driven) by TNCs relative to single-occupancy (and without customer) vehicle miles. Both TNCs and cities alike will benefit from understanding what factors encourage or deter pooling a ride-hailing trip. In this study, newly available Chicago transportation network provider data were explored to identify the extent to which different socioeconomic, spatiotemporal, and trip characteristics affect willingness to pool (WTP) in ride-hailing trips. Furthermore, multivariate linear regression and machine-learning models were employed to understand and predict WTP based on location, time, and trip factors. The results show intuitive trends, with income level at drop-off and pickup locations and airport trips as the most important predictors of WTP. Results from this study can help TNCs and cities devise strategies that increase pooled ride-hailing, thereby reducing adverse transportation and energy impacts from ride-hailing modes.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 1659859

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA--5400-74531; MainId:6862; UUID:c2a9b1e7-56b5-e911-9c24-ac162d87dfe5; MainAdminID:13522

Journal Information:: Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Journal Name: Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 2674; ISSN 0361-1981

Publisher:: National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and MedicineCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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