[PDF] Community Based Ridesharing eBook

Author : Jurian Edelenbos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000334651

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This book intends to theoretically conceptualize and empirically investigate upcoming and established practices of community-based initiatives in various countries in which both citizens and governments join efforts and capacities to solve wicked issues. It aims to include and compare cases from various countries, departing from the notion that community-based initiatives take place in an institutional context of governmental structures, rules, procedures, regulations, and routines. This leads to government involvement in these initiatives and sharing the public space. Furthermore, the editors take into account what kind of leadership roles, knowledge, and resources are present and how they evolve in this collaborative or coordinative effort, which in turn can enhance the capacities of community-based initiatives. This book joins excellent researchers from renowned universities all over the world, aiming for a balance between upcoming scholars and renowned scholars in the field of community-based initiatives and governance capacity. Contributors were carefully selected on the basis of their experience in the field of community-based initiatives, citizens’ engagement and governance capacity approaches. Aimed at researchers and academics, this volume will be of interest to those in the fields of business, economics, public administration, political science, social enterprise, sociology and third sector studies.

Author : Andrew M. Amey
Publisher :
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2010
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The potential benefits from increased ridesharing are substantial, and impact a wide range of stakeholders. In a properly applied rideshare scheme, drivers and passengers achieve cost savings, they potentially achieve travel time savings, and they benefit from increased travel options. Employers can reduce expensive parking construction or leasing, and benefit from higher worker productivity. Society benefits from congestion reduction, energy security improvements, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions and increased social equity. Unfortunately, ridesharing's historical success has been rather modest, with a substantial decrease in popularity since the 1970's and participation that remains near an all-time low. Clearly there is a disconnect between the purported benefits and the real or perceived challenges associated with sharing rides. This thesis asks why ridesharing is not more popular than current participation suggests, and what can be done to encourage greater participation going forward? After a review of past and present rideshare initiatives, it becomes clear that there is no single challenge to be overcome that will increase interest and participation in ridesharing. Rather, the 'rideshare challenge' is a series of economic, behavioral, institutional and technological obstacles to be addressed. Yet, two opportunities show particular promise at helping overcome these challenges - a focus on large employers, and a technology-based service innovation known as "real-time" ridesharing. Large employers are a unique type of institution that can successfully influence private household travel decisions while simultaneously advancing employer-specific goals and various societal goals. "Real-time" ridesharing extends the range of existing rideshare options available to travelers and it begins to address a number of challenges associated with ridesharing. To increase rideshare participation going forward, this thesis proposes a detailed design for an employer based, technology-focused rideshare trial for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), supported by a rigorous, Institute-specific analysis of rideshare viability. The trial is designed to be expanded to other institutions in the MIT/Kendall Square area of Cambridge, MA in the future. The analysis suggests that on an ideal day, approximately 65% of consistent, single occupant commuters could share rides, leading to a 19% reduction in Institute-wide, commuting trip VMT. The trial design focuses on the use of technology, incentives and personalized marketing to overcome the 'rideshare challenge' and realize a significant portion of this best case VMT reduction.

Author : Nathan Michael Shay
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2016
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Expanding travel choices by providing ridesharing can improve mobility and accessibility and reduce congestion and the negative externalities associated with single occupancy automobile use. To realize these benefits, sufficient demand must be generated by matching drivers and passengers with similar origins and destinations and who are willing to travel with potential strangers. Technological developments have facilitated the provision of real-time ridesharing programs, where travelers are matched to share a ride shortly before they travel. Real-time ridesharing offers additional flexibility and the possibility of occasional use that may be desirable in an increasingly complex society with varying schedules. While initial real-time travel options have been perceived as unattractive due to reliability and personal safety concerns, the growing success of real-time ride-sourcing services suggests that perceptions may be shifting. Furthermore, large employer-based ridesharing offers additional promise due to a network of co-workers with similar work locations facilitating good matches, increased familiarity with fellow travelers, and the ability to incentivize participation. A stated preference survey of The Ohio State University community was used to analyze willingness to participate in an idealized real-time employer-based ridesharing program. Individual characteristics and travel behaviors associated with unwillingness to participate in an ideal program are analyzed. Also, the characteristics and behaviors associated with interest in a passenger or driver role in such a program are identified. Many findings support results presented elsewhere and a priori expectations, for example an increased willingness of younger travelers to participate in ridesharing, an increased willingness of females to participate as passengers, and an increased willingness of those with experience driving to participate as drivers. In addition three findings provide important insights previously unidentified about traveler preferences toward ridesharing. Firstly, it seems that those who travel in automobiles, whether shared or alone, are more likely than those who do not travel in automobiles to participate in ridesharing. Also, those who walk or use transit seem to be less willing to participate in a ridesharing program than those who do not use these alternative modes. These findings are encouraging in light of the desire to attract single occupancy vehicle users, rather than transit users or walkers, to ridesharing to realize its social benefits. Secondly, the notion that providing ridesharing expands mobility and accessibility seems to be supported by the fact that those who do not have a car available to them tend to be more interested in being rideshare passengers than those who have a car available to them. Lastly, while those living with younger dependent children are more likely to reject ridesharing due to the constraints associated with this mode, among those who are interested in ridesharing, individuals living with children—whether younger dependent ones or otherwise—are more willing to drive in a ridesharing program than those who do not live with children, possibly due to having experience traveling in vehicles with passengers.

Author : Gregory Ching-cheng Han
Publisher :
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Air quality management
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The Clean Air Act of 1990 mandated that areas classified as "severe" non-attainment must impose commuting restrictions on major employment sites. The mandates were recently put on hold and states were given the option of implementing the mandates. The previously required mandates demanded that organizations employing over 100 employees survey their work sites to obtain information on commuter mode usage, develop plans to reduce vehicle occupancy (usually in the form of transportation demand management (TDM) techniques) to meet regional target occupancy rates, and maintain those occupancy rates, or the employer would be penalized financially and/or criminally. Currently, there are only a handful of urban areas that fall under the "severe" non-attainment classification. However, because the classification of "severe" non-attainment brings considerable economic penalties with it, cities currently not classified as "severe" non-attainment are continuously trying to find ways to reduce air pollution. Voluntary trip reduction strategies for work sites have been adopted by these cities as a way to control vehicular ozone levels. The specific problem that this study addresses is the problem of forecasting rideshare demand for the work trip to an employment site. A major employer in the Austin area of Travis County has expressed interest in developing ridesharing systems to curb demand for parking and therefore will be used as a case scenario for the application to innovative demand forecasting techniques