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SUBMITTER: Erhardt GD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6506243 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Erhardt Gregory D GD Roy Sneha S Cooper Drew D Sana Bhargava B Chen Mei M Castiglione Joe J
Science advances 20190508 5
This research examines whether transportation network companies (TNCs), such as Uber and Lyft, live up to their stated vision of reducing congestion in major cities. Existing research has produced conflicting results and has been hampered by a lack of data. Using data scraped from the application programming interfaces of two TNCs, combined with observed travel time data, we find that contrary to their vision, TNCs are the biggest contributor to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco. Betwe ...[more]