Uber remains an investor in Lime, and customers can rent Lime’s e-bikes and mopeds through Uber’s app. But for all intents and purposes, Uber is out of the micromobility game. Another key difference between the companies is their approach to autonomous vehicles. Uber and Lyft were both...
Uber is the leading ride-hailing app, dominating the market in 107 out of 171 countries (62%), followed by Careem and Grab (Marciano, 2016). As of 2023, RHS companies continue to flourish around the world, with initiatives to incorporate more eco-friendly vehicles, such as electric cars,...
However, the existing knowledge on the factors that affect the choice of different ride-hailing services remains scarce, and the difference of this impact between the users with and without household vehicles (HVs) has been little examined. To fill these gaps, the goal of this study is to ...
Uber, Lyft, and other rideshare services are software companies at their core. They facilitate interactions between their drivers and riders and provide a platform through which they can interact. They don’t actually own most of the vehicles that bear their stickers and, apart from those involved...
If on-demand vehicles can be designed to serve a larger number of passengers as well, some sources of scale economics can be triggered (Fielbaum et al. 2023): For users, the utilization of a larger fleet diminishes waiting times (similar to the “Mohring Effect” in public transport), an...
Self-Driving Vehicles Spur Debate within Silicon Valley Google, Uber and Apple Could Take Different Paths to InnovationSAN FRANCISCO - The race to build a self-driving car may revolve around one simple question: to...Oreskovic, Alexei
Decarbonising road freight transport: The role of zero-emission trucks and intangible costs Vahid Aryanpur Fionn Rogan Scientific Reports(2024) A cross-scale framework for evaluating flexibility values of battery and fuel cell electric vehicles ...
Uber partners with May Mobility to bring thousands of autonomous vehicles to U.S. streets The self-driving race is shifting into high gear, and Uber just added more horsepower. In a new multi-year partnership, Uber and autonomous vehicle (AV) company May Mobility will begin rolling out driver...
of central Spain. Two different pruning strategies were carried out: mechanical pruning and no pruning. The stem water potential was measured with a pressure chamber (Ψstem) at two different solar times (9 h and 12 h). Multispectral information from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) was obtained...
Simulations show that controlled charging - while reducing the maximum power from the grid drastically - has nearly no negative effect on the resulting charged energy and thus range of the vehicles when departing.S. UBERMASSERM. STIFTERD. BURNIER DE CASTRO...