ride-hailing issues.
Ride-hailing services contribute to congestion & exclude commuters economically.
At the expense of long-term functionality, current ride hailing services bill themselves as ride sharing with the “justification” of efficiency & convenience.
“[Ride hailing provides] convenient cabs, not transportation revolution as promised.”
click image for source (The Verge).
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Ride-hailing adds cars to already crowded roads.
Sadly, the San Francisco area is a perfect example;
10% of San Francisco traffic is empty ride-hailing cars.
In general, more than 50% of all miles driven by ride-hailing cars are sans passengers.
In the Bay Area, 50% of all congestion increase 2010-2016 was due to ride-hailing.
click image for sources (SFMTA, CityLab).
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Ride-Hailing Costs
Traditional ride-hailing is only as scalable as our infrastructure.
So, we’re stuck with price increases equivalent to private transportation costs.
click image for source (Statista).
Public Transportation Issues.
Public Transit Infrastructure is inflexible & overpriced.
Routes are not available where or when commuters need them, nor at price points which make sense. Demand is growing, but our infrastructure's not following suit.
We're not taking public transit & it's clear why.
Per capita (resident), Americans take as little as 14.2 public transit trips yearly.
On the high end, we're taking 102.4 trips each year.
Functional public transit yields 3x - 329 yearly trips.
A glance at our cities' public transit networks tells us why this is.
click image for source (CityLab, US Census).
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We’re paying more, especially for mass transit.
click image for source (BTS.gov).
Infrastructure Planning Issues.
Consumer need isn’t a priority for infrastructure providers.
Municipalities & private stakeholders continually overlook public commuting needs. Feeding into the extant private transportation system only extenuates the issue.
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Our cities are too full of roads.
More than a third (37%) of NYC is roads.
Better infrastructure halves that (18%, for Auckland).
Optimizing travel on those roads (Hopbus), stops the need for expansion.
click image for source (Geotab).
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Mass transit's not an investment priority.
Funds are continually directed towards Private Transportation.
Let's take advantage of that $206.91 billion in annual funding.
Hopbus brings mass transit to the Highway (road).
click image for source (US DOT).
corporate transportation issues.
Corporate Transportation breeds exclusivity.
Privatizing transportation doesn’t benefit the commuter community, nor is it always viable from a corporate standpoint.
Corporate transportation represents a stark duality; how new transit solutions can launch & work , and how private transit brings congestion & gentrification.
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Corporate Privatization of Transportation: Works for some, but not for most.
click image for source ("Diary", Rebecca Solnit).
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Households are being priced out.
This is a universal issue. Here's one example.
Average cost of living in the SF bay area vs. household earning.
There's lots of data at left, but tl;dr it's showing that, right now;
51% of Bay Area working households can’t afford to live here.
By 2040, that number will be 56%.
Household incomes aren’t keeping up, pricing households out.
click image for source (MTC.ca.gov).