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Not Minding the Gap: Does Ride-Hailing Serve Transit Deserts?

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Barajas, Jesus, Brown, Anne·2020·Journal of Transport Geography
DOI 10.31235/osf.io/y4jwk

Preprint — published as 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102918

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Abstract

Transit has long connected people to opportunities but access to transit varies greatly across space. In some cases, unevenly distributed transit supply creates gaps in service that impede travelers' abilities to cross space and access jobs or other opportunities. With the advent of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, however, travelers now have a new potential to gain automobility without high car purchase costs and in the absence of reliable transit service. Research remains mixed on whether ride-hailing serves as a modal complement or substitute to transit or whether ride-hailing fills transit service needs gaps. This study measures transit supply in Chicago and compares it to ride-hailing origins and destinations to examine if ride-hailing fills existing transit service gaps. Findings reveal clustering of ride-hailing pickups and drop-offs across the City of Chicago, but that the number of ride-hailing pickups and drop-offs was most strongly associated with high neighborhood median household income rather than measures of transit supply. In bivariate analyses, transit service was not associated with ride-hailing trip ends. But after controlling for neighborhood socioeconomic status, transit dependency, population density, and employment density, we found fewer ride-hailing trips in neighborhoods where bus service dominated and significantly more ride-hailing trips where rail service was prevalent. Patterns were slightly different for overnight weekend ride-hailing p…

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Authors
Barajas, J., & Brown, A.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • University of Oregon (US)
Corresponding author
Barajas, Jesus
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Transport Geography
Publisher
Center for Open Science
Published
2020-05-30
Volume
90
Pages
102918-102918
ISSN
0966-6923 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.31235/osf.io/y4jwk
OpenAlex
W3106404186
Cited by
81
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 10
FWCI
3.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Journal of Transport Geography (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • SocArXiv (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
Funders
University of California, Davis
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Urban Transport and Accessibility
Keywords
ride-hailing, transit deserts, modal substitution, transit supply, bus services, railway services, neighborhood socioeconomic status, low-income communities, Chicago, Uber, Lyft

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