Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Uber

Does It Make Sense for Transit Agencies to Pay for “Last Mile” Uber Trips?

By Angie Schmitt | Apr 28, 2016 | 11 Comments

Should transit agencies subsidize short “last-mile” Uber trips to expand transit access for people who live outside comfortable walking distance of a train station? Columbus, Ohio, has proposed something along these lines as part of its application for U.S. DOT’s Smart City Challenge. The city is one of seven finalists competing for a $50 million federal grant. New technologies associated with ride-hailing services […]

Subsidizing Uber for the “Last Mile”? An Orlando Suburb Is Trying It

By Daniel Hertz | Mar 16, 2016 | 2 Comments

In a January 2015 paper, the Yale Law professor David Schleicher and Yale Law student Daniel Rauch published a paper on how local governments might regulate “sharing economy” companies, such as Uber, in the future. Among their more startling predictions, perhaps, was that the very cities that have been battling to regulate startups like Uber — which […]

Study: Uber Reduces Drunk Driving Deaths

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 13, 2015 | 13 Comments

There’s an unexpected upside to the introduction of Uber into more and more U.S. cities, according to a study published earlier this year: the service helps reduce drunk driving fatalities. The entry of Uber X — driving services offered by people using private vehicles — into a new city decreased drunk driving deaths by an average […]

Technology Can Help People Go Car-Free, But Don’t Forget the Basics

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 9, 2015 | 6 Comments

Last week, the U.S. Public Interest Research Group released a ranking of the top 10 cities for “wired” transportation, where newer technologies like bike-share, real-time transit data, and app-based ride-hailing services are helping people get around without a car. After rating 70 metro areas based on the availability of 11 different technologies, Austin came out on […]

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