1、字数：英文 3214 单词， 18240 字符；中文 5795 汉字 出 处 ： Seth D Contreras,Alexander Paz.The effects of ride-hailing companies on the taxicab industry in Las Vegas, NevadaJTransportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.2017 外文文献： The effects of ride-hailing companies on the taxicab industry in Las Vegas, Nevada
2、 Abstract Ride-hailing, or ride-sourcing, companies continue to penetrate the growing market of transportation-for-hire services in major metropolitan cities all across the globe, both revolutionizing travel and redefining the concept of the taxicab experience. Since the fall of 2015, Las Vegas, Nev
3、ada, was added to the ever-growing list of metropolises with such ride-hailing companies (RHCs). For cities whose economies are built predominately on the foundations of tourism, questions inevitably have been raised regarding the effects that RHCs have on their respective transportation system oper
4、ators, in particular, the taxicab industry. In Las Vegas, services such as Uber (Uber Technologies Inc.) and Lyft (L) compete directly with the taxicab industry for riders within the resort corridor and across the valley. In this study, a multinomial linear regression analysis used a multi-modal, ti
5、me-series travel dataset to estimate the effects of RHCs on taxicab ridership. After controlling for a number of explanatory variables, including the total number of monthly visitors, transit ridership, ride-hailing trip counts to/from the airport and several other socioeconomic indicators, the resu
6、lts showed that RHCs do in fact have a negative, and significant, effect on taxicab ridership. A perhaps more profound and counterintuitive finding however was that transit ridership along the resort corridor actually complements (rather than competes with) taxi ridership; this could ha ve significant implications moving forward. 1. Introduction Ride-hailing also known as ride-sourcing, ride-sharing, vehicle-for-hire, or on-demand ride services is the act of requesting a ride
