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2/19/2019 <br />Lyft, Uber increase traffic 180% in major cities - Curbed SF <br />• Ride -hailing trips are concentrated mainly in a few large cities, including SF: <br />"Seventy percent of Uber and Lyft trips are in nine large, densely populated metropolitan areas: <br />Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and <br />Washington DC." These nine cities accounted for 1.2 billion rides in 2017. <br />• Ride -hailing trips are by far more popular in SF than anywhere else: In 2017, <br />Schaller estimates that San Franciscans took 75 million trips via hide -hailing apps. That's not <br />only more than almost any other city, it's also the most in terms of rides per population density, <br />some 86 rides per person. The only city with a higher TNC ride volume is New York, which <br />clocked 159 million; however, New York is also the sole city that still prefers taxis, taking 167 <br />million cab trips the same year. <br />• Critically, Schaller alleges that TNCs compete with public transit, not private cars: <br />"[Rider surveys indicate] about 6o percent of TNC users in large, dense cities would have taken <br />public transportation, walked, biked, or not made the trip if TNCs had not been available for the <br />trip." <br />• The report alleges that Lyft and Uber generate more traffic congestion: "Private -ride <br />TNC services (UberX, Lyft) put 2.8 new TNC vehicle miles on the road for each mile of personal <br />driving removed, for an overall 18o percent increase in driving on city streets." <br />• And TNC expansion won't fix it: The companies often argue that in the long run, if ride - <br />hailing apps become the norm instead of personal driving, it will lead to a net decline in miles. <br />But Schaller estimates that "Lyft's recently announced goal of 50 percent of rides being shared <br />by 2022 would produce 2.2 TNC miles being added to city streets for each personal auto mile <br />taken off the road." <br />• Self -driving cars would be most useful in the form of shuttle -like group commutes: <br />"A widely -cited travel model for Lisbon, Portugal, for example, found that traffic could increase <br />by approximately 50 percent if travelers favored autonomous `regular taxis' that are not shared. <br />On the other hand, the model showed a 37 percent decline in vehicle kilometers, and total <br />elimination of congestion, under a shared -taxi scenario." Presently, TNC rides remain primarily <br />single -passenger trips. <br />For Schaller's full report, including his list of cited sources, check it out here. <br />haps://sf.curbed.com/2018/7/27/17622178/uber-lyk-cause-traffic-streetscongestion-brace-schaller-tnc-report 214 <br />
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