As looking into the business controversy of allowing Ubers and other ride sharing companies in cities. Looking at scholarly sources, the results are limited regarding Uber but, there were many available regarding ride sharing.
The first scholarly source is titled Dynamic ride-sharing: A simple study in metro Atlanta.
- The purpose of this sources is explain a study showing that ride sharing technology offers many useful benefits to its users. It offers many reasons that ride sharing is a very beneficial technology. It states it saves money and time for users as well as reduces traffic congestion. Many people would benefit directly from the technology and many would benefit indirectly.
- This source was published in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. It was published by Elsevier B.V., which is an academic publishing company.
- They offer a wide variety of different sources. They use in text citations and have many references. Given that the authors were conducting their own study, they use there sources to back up their research.
- There are four authors to the source. Niels A.H Agatz represents Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands. Alan L. Erera represents School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States. Martin W.P. Savelsbergh represents Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia. Xing Wang represents School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States as well. All of these men seem to come from impressive academic backgrounds.
- The intended audience would be those fighting for ride sharing technology. It would also be intended for those looking for more information on the benefits of ride sharing. City planners could use this as well for to looking into implementing a ride sharing service.
- I found this source by searching for ride sharing on google scholars.
The second scholarly source is titled Market research evaluation of actions to reduce suburban traffic congestion: Commuter travel behavior and response to demand reduction actions.
- The purpose of this source is to offer information on current modes of work transportation. This meaning driving by oneself, carpooling or taking public transportation. This source offers data that could lead to reducing traffic.
- This source was published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. It was published by Elsevier B.V as well.
- This source offered a wide variety of sources as well. It includes many in text citations and has a long list of references. It utilized foot notes as well.
- Frank S. Koppelman, Chandra R. Bhat and Joseph L. Schofer all represent Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.
- The intended audience would be city planners, City planners could utilize this report to reduce costs and implement the use of public transportation much more efficiently. Also those looking to find the most cost efficient ways to get to work could look at this and make their choice off of the information in this report.
- I found this source by searching for ride sharing on google scholars.
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