UberHOP in Seattle

2017 ◽  
Vol 2650 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elyse O’C. Lewis ◽  
Don MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Count Data ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Transportation Modes ◽  
Intercept Survey ◽  
The Future ◽  
Survey Administration ◽  
Primary Form

UberHOP is a commute-focused interpretation of the Uber suite of transportation services, with the goal of reducing personal vehicle commute trips. The service first launched in Seattle, Washington, and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in December 2015 and expanded to Manila, Philippines, in early 2016. UberHOP is similar to vanpooling with fixed pickup and drop-off locations in the primary commute direction during peak hours, but it leverages Uber’s ridesourcing platform to replace fixed departure schedules with riders matched in real time. This paper reports on an intercept survey (83% response rate) to understand who rode, how they traveled to the pickup location, why they rode, and what modes UberHOP was replacing for all 11 UberHOP routes in Seattle during the morning and evening commute periods. In addition, detailed trip and total rider count data were collected during the survey administration process. The results show that many UberHOP riders made UberHOP their primary form of commute mode. Unlike standard ridesourcing services, UberHOP riders predominantly replaced public transportation modes rather than personal vehicles. UberHOP services were canceled in Seattle in August 2016. However, with larger rider densities per trip, the UberHOP model can be profitable, and it is reasonable to expect that Uber or others will resurrect a similar service in the future.

scholarly journals Exploring Preferences for Transportation Modes in an Urban Air Mobility Environment: Munich Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (10) ◽  
pp. 427-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengying Fu ◽  
Raoul Rothfeld ◽  
Constantinos Antoniou
Keyword(s):  
Travel Time ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Stated Preference ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Urban Air ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Main Mode ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Transportation Modes

Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a recent mobility concept with the potential to reduce travel time and change travel patterns. When evaluating the introduction of UAM, understanding the potential users’ choice behavior regarding current available urban transportation modes and autonomous transportation services is essential to demand estimation. This preliminary research intends to gain insight into the travel behavior impacts of autonomous transportation modes, especially UAM, by deriving measures for transportation service attributes and identifying characteristics of potential users who might adopt autonomous transportation services, particularly the services of UAM. Thus, a stated preference questionnaire was designed and distributed in Munich metropolitan region. A main mode choice multinomial logit model and several sub-models, based on market segmentation, were estimated regarding four transportation alternatives: private car, public transportation, autonomous taxi, and autonomous flying taxi. The results indicate that travel time, travel cost, and safety may be critical determinants in autonomous transportation mode adoption. The potential consumers may be willing to pay more for using autonomous transportation modes, especially the service of UAM. Among different market segments, younger individuals, as well as older individuals with high household income, are more likely to adopt UAM. In addition, during the market entry stage, potential travelers may favor UAM particularly for performing non-commuting trips.

scholarly journals Data-Driven Real-Time Online Taxi-Hailing Demand Forecasting Based on Machine Learning Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 6681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhizhen Liu ◽  
Hong Chen ◽  
Xiaoke Sun ◽  
Hengrui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Demand Forecasting ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Intelligent Transport System ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Intelligent Transport ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Extreme Gradient Boosting ◽  
Demand Forecasting Model

The development of the intelligent transport system has created conditions for solving the supply–demand imbalance of public transportation services. For example, forecasting the demand for online taxi-hailing could help to rebalance the resource of taxis. In this research, we introduced a method to forecast real-time online taxi-hailing demand. First, we analyze the relation between taxi demand and online taxi-hailing demand. Next, we propose six models containing different information based on backpropagation neural network (BPNN) and extreme gradient boosting (XGB) to forecast online taxi-hailing demand. Finally, we present a real-time online taxi-hailing demand forecasting model considering the projected taxi demand (“PTX”). The results indicate that including more information leads to better prediction performance, and the results show that including the information of projected taxi demand leads to a reduction of MAPE from 0.190 to 0.183 and an RMSE reduction from 23.921 to 21.050, and it increases R2 from 0.845 to 0.853. The analysis indicates the demand regularity of online taxi-hailing and taxi, and the experiment realizes real-time prediction of online taxi-hailing by considering the projected taxi demand. The proposed method can help to schedule online taxi-hailing resources in advance.

scholarly journals The Process Occupying and Tending to the Use of Roads by Online Motorcycle Transportation

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Tin Budi Utami
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transportation Mode ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Transportation Modes ◽  
Mode Of Transportation ◽  
The Government

Jakarta is increasingly improving its public transportation services. At present, a breakthrough in the development of transportation has been made, especially related to the protocol road. These include expanding Transjakarta routes, Mass Rapid Transit, and Light Rail Transit. The addition of the number of modes of transportation has an impact on the addition of the number of stations or stops. However, it does not match by the availability of the government in procuring land for connecting transportation modes into deeper areas. The formal and informal transportation providers as an introduction to integrated transportation users still use the highway corridor as their place to raise, lower, and wait for passengers. Not yet found a place to raise, lower, and wait for those around the top of the officially integrated mode of transportation from the government or service providers. Therefore, this study was conducted to see how the division of land used by providers of the integrated transportation mode connector. This research method is to observe the spread of land use providers of formal and informal transportation services.

scholarly journals A first experience with a Smart bus for improving public transportation

2017 ◽  
Vol IV-4/W3 ◽  
pp. 79-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Tostado ◽  
A. Rovirosa ◽  
J. L. Velázquez ◽  
E. Castillo ◽  
O. Cervantes
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Administrative Employees ◽  
The City

An alternative to optimize transportation services in the city of Puebla is presented. Main problems tackled to provide advanced transport applications in a Smart City, are described and some available solutions in other countries are analyzed. As a case of study, the challenges for designing and developing a mobile application oriented to users of the buses provided by Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP) are presented. Users include students, as well as faculty members and administrative employees. The application provides an innovative way of tracking, in real time, movements of the UDLAP transportation buses through the city of Puebla in Mexico. Modeling and technical implementation solved problems are presented and future steps for extending those services to the city of Puebla are also suggested.

scholarly journals Implementation of Passenger Information and Monitoring Systems in Trans Semarang Bus and Assessment of the Community Perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1129-1135
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Arrival Time ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Community Perception ◽  
Wireless System ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
In Trans ◽  
Bus Stops ◽  
Time Of Travel

One of the methods to raise public interest in Trans Semarang buses is by providing real-time departure and arrival information. Therefore, it is necessary to improve public transportation services using the Monitoring System installed in the Semarang City Transportation Office as well as the Passenger Information System at 5 bus stops of Kesatrian, Elizabeth, UNDIP, UNIKA, and UNNES. This system, however, requires the Automatic Vehicle Location, GPS, and transmission bus's geographical location are determined and sent to the server via the satellite while the tracking info is sent using a wireless system via GSM. The system was designed to display bus location and speed information to estimate arrival time to passengers in real-time to ensure an accurate time of travel is shown on their android mobile phones and monitors at bus stops as well as the Transportation Office. The results obtained from the survey conducted showed 99.2% of 130 respondents were pleased with the implementation of the system.

scholarly journals Identifying the Potential for Partial Integration of Private and Public Transportation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3424
Author(s):  
Iva Bojic ◽  
Dániel Kondor ◽  
Wei Tu ◽  
Ke Mai ◽  
Paolo Santi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
The Future ◽  
Dynamic Landscape ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Bus Services ◽  
Partial Integration

In this paper, we explore the potential for a partial integration of private and public transportation as provided by taxi and bus services on the level of individual trips. While these modes are typically separated for economic reasons, in the future with shared Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) providing cheap and efficient transportation services, such distinctions will blur. Consequently, optimization based on real-time data will allow exploiting parallels in demand in a dynamic way, such as the proposed approach in the current work. New operational and pricing strategies will then need to be considered, along with regulatory tools to limit congestion, encourage sharing and provide services in a more sustainable way by utilizing a dynamic landscape of urban transportation. In the current work, we evaluate existing parallels between individual bus and taxi trips in two Asian cities and show how exploiting these synergies could form the basis of achieving some of the above goals in the future.

scholarly journals Selecting Freight Transportation Modes in Last-Mile Urban Distribution in Pamplona (Spain): An Option for Drone Delivery in Smart Cities

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 4748
Author(s):  
Adrian Serrano-Hernandez ◽  
Aitor Ballano ◽  
Javier Faulin
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Freight Transportation ◽  
City Center ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Freight Logistics ◽  
Transportation Modes ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Urban Distribution ◽  
The City

Urban distribution in medium-sized cities faces a major challenge, mainly when deliveries are difficult in the city center due to: an increase of e-commerce, weak public transportation system, and the promotion of urban sustainability plans. As a result, private cars, public transportation, and freight transportation compete for the same space. This paper analyses the current state for freight logistics in the city center of Pamplona (Spain) and proposes alternative transportation routes and transportation modes in the last-mile city center distribution according to different criteria evaluated by residents. An analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was developed. A number of alternatives have been assessed considering routes and transportation modes: the shortest route criterion and avoiding some city center area policies are combined with traditional van-based, bike, and aerial (drone) distribution protocols for delivering parcels and bar/restaurant supplies. These alternatives have been evaluated within a multicriteria framework in which economic, environmental, and social objectives are considered at the same time. The point in this multicriteria framework is that the criteria/alternative AHP weights and priorities have been set according to a survey deployed in the city of Pamplona (Navarre, Spain). The survey and AHP results show the preference for the use of drone or bike distribution in city center in order to reduce social and environmental issues.

Perspectives of physicians on medical acupuncture in Lebanon: a preliminary study

2020 ◽  
pp. 096452842096883
Author(s):  
Fadila Bassem Naji ◽  
Kamal Wahab ◽  
Ghassan Hamadeh ◽  
Sani Hlais
Keyword(s):  
Integrative Medicine ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Mechanisms Of Action ◽  
Medical Curricula ◽  
Chinese Acupuncture ◽  
The Future ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Medical Acupuncture ◽  
The Difference

Objectives: There are no regulations governing the practice of acupuncture in Lebanon as it is not yet registered as a profession. To our knowledge, no studies have ever been conducted in Lebanon regarding the practice of acupuncture. The purpose of this preliminary study was to explore the knowledge of Lebanese physicians about acupuncture, with the intent of conducting larger scale studies and developing strategies aimed at refining this knowledge in the future, and the ultimate goal of setting guidelines for acupuncture practice in Lebanon. Methods: An online survey looking into physicians’ knowledge of acupuncture, its mechanisms of action, effectiveness, indications and safety, and physicians’ understanding of its concepts, was circulated to 4651 physicians registered in the Lebanese orders of physicians. Results: One hundred forty-nine physicians (3.2%) completed the survey. Most study respondents stated that they were unaware of the difference between traditional Chinese acupuncture (TCA) and Western medical acupuncture (WMA). Overall, 30% of respondents had personally used and/or referred patients for acupuncture. Physicians who had personally tried acupuncture were more likely to refer patients for acupuncture (p < 0.001). Those who know the difference between WMA and TCA were more likely to have tried or referred for acupuncture (p = 0.004). 72% believed that acupuncture and other integrative medicine modules should be introduced in medical curricula in Lebanon. Conclusion: Interest in acupuncture among physicians in Lebanon appears to be limited, based on the low response rate. Among respondents, physicians who had tried or referred patients for acupuncture appeared to be more well informed about different acupuncture styles.

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