The impact of Uber and Lyft on vehicle ownership, fuel economy, and transit across U.S. cities.

ABSTRACT: We estimate the effects of transportation network companies (TNCs) Uber and Lyft on vehicle ownership, fleet average fuel economy, and transit use in U.S. urban areas using a set of difference-in-difference propensity score-weighted regression models that exploit staggered market entry across the U.S. from 2011 to 2017. We find evidence that TNC entry into urban areas causes an average 0.7% increase in vehicle registrations with significant heterogeneity in these effects across urban areas: TNC entry produces larger vehicle ownership increases in urban areas with higher initial ownership (car-dependent cities) and in urban areas with lower population growth (where TNC-induced vehicle adoption outpaces population growth). We also find no statistically significant average effect of TNC entry

SUBMITTER: Ward JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7835256 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature