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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Lyft"”.
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Wheelchair Accessibility in Transportation Service Hailed Through the Uber and Lyft Apps
Transportation-network companies such as Uber and Lyft have permeated cities around the world. While they have been lauded for introducing a new mobility option, questions of equity have been raised, including in relation to people with disabilities. Numerous lawsuits have been filed against Uber …
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Perspectives on the Ridesourcing Revolution : surveying individual attitudes toward Uber and Lyft to inform urban transportation policymaking
… of ridesourcing services such as Uber and Lyft has described a rivalry between new technology and the established taxi industry. Individual users and non-users of ridesourcing, however, may have more nuanced perspectives, but policymakers have little guidance on how to best represent these …
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Búkrani í iðnaðarbil : lyftigeta að 1000kg
… fyrir lítil og meðalstór iðnaðarbil sem getur lyft byrði upp að 1000kg. Leitast er eftir því að finna hagkvæma lausn til lyftiaðgerða sem er jafnframt fullkomlega lögleg. Farið er í gegnum allt ferlið frá hugmynd að fullmótaðri hönnun ásamt verðhugmynd og teikningum. Eitt raundæmi af hönnun er …
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Smart mobility : behavioral data collection and simulation
On-demand ridesharing services, such as Uber and Lyft, and autonomous vehicles are significantly changing the landscape of transportation and mobility. In light of these disruptions, we aim to determine consumer preferences with regards to transportation and use this data to simulate and analyze …
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Hvernig má auka þjónustugæði hótela með innleiðingu stafrænna lausna?
… lausna hefur bætt skilvirkni í starfi og lyft þjónustu stöðlum á hærra stig sem getur orðið virðisaukandi fyrir hótelin. Skýrslan mun því draga fram helstu atriði sem snúa að tæknivæðingu hótela og hvaða lausnir eru til boða sem hagnast fyrirtækinu, starfsfólki og gestum. Leitast verður …
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Mobility as a public service : integrating civil rights laws in partnerships between transit agencies and ride-hailing companies
… Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft. Proponents of these collaborations emphasize their potential to expand the reach of public transportation systems, while skeptics caution that transit agencies should not divert resources from core bus and rail networks, and should not rely …
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Understanding Attitudes and Behaviors Associated with Shared Mobility During Disruptive Events and Times of Uncertainty
… innovative ride-hailing services (e.g. Uber and Lyft) have become a popular mobility option but true “shared” ride-hailing services like UberPool and Lyft Line are significantly lagging in acceptance. To magnify this existing trend of low willingness-to-share across modes, the COVID-19 pandemic, …
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Simulating Urban Air Mobility Supply
… industry. As on-demand services like Uber and Lyft have transformed our daily lives, our objective is to explore how on-demand UAM impacts mobility patterns by modeling the supply-side of such a service within a realistic, high-fidelity simulation. We present a design and implementation of UAM …
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Integração do Global Name Service a uma aplicação móvel de transporte público
… e prática com aplicativos móveis como Uber, Lyft e Cabify que ganharam grande importância no cenário da mobilidade urbana, apresentando uma forma objetiva de utilizar transportes sem grandes custos. A medida que o número de usuários desses serviços aumenta, os aplicativos responsáveis pelos …
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Discrimination, regulation, and design in ridehailing
… network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft have replaced, supplemented, and disrupted traditional modes of transportation. The rapid growth of these companies makes equitable access to their platforms an issue that is simply too big to ignore. Indeed, these ridehailing services have the …
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Stories of the Sharing Economy: Comparing Narratives and Regulatory Responses to TNCs across American Cities
… service business platforms like Uber and Lyft have appeared in cities across the U.S. Since these new business models do not fit into existing regulatory and policy frameworks, and their entrance into markets is typically abrupt and sometimes illegal, these companies, which have come to be …
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The Charge Forward: An Assessment of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure in New York City
… for all High Volume For Hire Vehicles (Uber and Lyft) to be fully electric or wheelchair accessible by 2030 will increase demand for charging infrastructure, but growth must match demand. The role of the private sector is crucial, but current plans are unclear, highlighting the need for more …
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Impact of Real-Time Information and Road User Fees on Individuals Mode Choice Decision
… riding as auto-passengers, or taking TNC (Uber/Lyft) for trip purposes. Regarding MBUF, the results reveal that individuals are less likely to prefer motorized modes with the increased rate of MBUF. Full-time workers show more sensitivity towards MBUF for work trips, whereas college students are …
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Managing Self-Scheduling Capacity
Gig-economy platform like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, and Instacart have created markets in which independent service providers provide on-demand service to consumers. A hallmark of this arrangement is that providers decide for themselves when, where, and how much to work. In other words, the platform …
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Application-Aware Scheduling Architectures for Mobile Systems
… customers using the platform. On a trace of Lyft rides in New York City, Mobius computes max-min fair online schedules involving 200 vehicles and over 16,000 tasks, while achieving only 10% less throughput than a classical vehicle routing solver. Zipper is a radio resource scheduler that …
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Innovative mobility solutions disrupting conventional investment paradigms in real estate
… advent of ride-hailing providers like Uber, Lyft, and Didi. Broad literature, generated over the past decades and applying widely recognized econometric concepts, emphasizes the significance of public transport access for residential real estate values. More recently, claims arose that the …
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Exploring the impact of incorporating on-demand drivers into a child rideshare platform
… like the rideshare giants of today, Uber and Lyft, these child-geared services do not hire their drivers as employees. Instead, the drivers are treated as independent contractors. Contracting drivers means that the driver supply is never guaranteed at any given time since it is up to each …
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Spatiotemporal Big Data Analytics for Future Mobility
… such as on-demand transportation (e.g. Uber, Lyft). Today, the on-demand economy attracts millions of consumers annually and over $50 billion in spending. Even more growth is expected with the emergence of self-driving cars. However, spatiotemporal big data are of volume, velocity, variety, …
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Reading between the lines : blueprints for a worker support infrastructure in the peer economy
… have using online, peer-to-peer marketplaces. Lyft, Shapeways, Etsy, Skillshare... these platforms enable strangers to transact confidently. Instead of education, reskilling or being network rich, new marketplaces emerge everyday to reconfigure people's existing assets and skills into income …
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The Potential for Using Transportation Network Companies as an Alternative to Transit Station Parking
… Network Companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft over the past several years presents a potential opportunity to change the tradeoff transit agencies face between P+R or TOD. This thesis explores the potential for transit agencies to utilize TNCs to reduce demand for transit station parking …
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