Impact of ride-sharing on mobility trends and vehicle stock

North American transportation industry is on the verge of a revolutionary change. With the advent of car-sharing services and ride-sharing companies, the transportation industry is experiencing a fundamental way in which people choose to travel. This particular thesis looks at the impact of these disruptive changes in transportation on the way people choose to travel, the car based vehicle miles travelled (VMT) and the national vehicle stock. In particular, this work tries to look at how people choose to make a travel decision when embarking on a particular trip and how that translates to an effect on the national level vehicle stock. When presented with a particular mode of travel, the most relevant aspects associated with that particular mode of travel were explored and evaluated. Each mode was evaluated based on cost, time and comfort associated with the mode.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctoral

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Deshmukh, Suhrid Avinash.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Richard Roth and Warren Seering.

• Mechanical Engineering.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122891

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122891