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Designing TNC Partnerships for On-Demand Transit in Non-Urban Communities
Designing TNC Partnerships for On-Demand Transit in Non-Urban Communities
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202104814
- ISBN
- 9798293893126
- DDC
- 385
- 저자명
- Darling, Wesley.
- 서명/저자
- Designing TNC Partnerships for On-Demand Transit in Non-Urban Communities
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Berkeley, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 96 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-04, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Cassidy, Michael.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Non-urban communities (i.e., low-density communities in suburban or exurban areas) are increasingly adopting on-demand transit to improve service coverage and rider convenience. These services are typically delivered through partnerships with either microtransit providers (e.g., Via) or transportation network companies (TNCs) (e.g., Uber, Lyft). Although both provide app-based transportation with dynamic routing, they differ in key ways. Microtransit operates fixed size fleets, charges a fixed hourly rate, and consolidates riders with similar trips into shared vehicles. Conversely, TNCs use flexible, crowdsourced fleets; charge per trip served; and serve trips individually. Despite these differences, planning guides often treat the two as interchangeable, offering limited guidance on which mode better suits a given community. Due to past negative experiences with TNCs, most communities favor microtransit, even when TNCs could potentially be more cost-effective.This dissertation addresses two questions: first, how should a business plan be structured to make TNCs want to cooperate with non-urban communities? And second, under what conditions is it better for a community to partner with a cooperative TNC rather than a microtransit provider? To answer these questions, the dissertation makes three contributions: a business plan for cooperative TNC partnerships; an agent-based simulation to model TNC service under the proposed plan; and a design-independent, discriminating metric to guide mode selection.We propose TNC partnerships follow a business plan that uses an intermediary---the service manager---to align stakeholder interests while addressing community concerns about control, transparency, and service reliability. Riders book trips through the service manager's app, enabling real-time performance monitoring and policy enforcement. The service manager also distributes incentives to attract drivers from higher-density areas to the non-urban community, and pays the TNC a bonus for its cooperation. This arrangement preserves TNCs' flexibility and cost advantages in a Pareto-improving way.To compare the business plan's performance against that of existing microtransit systems, we develop an agent-based simulation model of cooperative TNC operations. Three Northern California communities are used as case studies. The simulation replicates community conditions using actual microtransit trip request data. Driver incentives are calculated based on market conditions and are distributed to scale the simulated fleet size according to demand. The case study comparison shows that cooperative TNC partnerships consistently improve levels of service compared to microtransit. However, cost-effectiveness varies with community conditions: TNCs cost less than microtransit in small and low-demand communities because of their low consolidation potential, but TNCs are more expensive in the large, high-demand community where microtransit can consolidate many trips.We generalize the case study results with a design-independent metric that discriminates between when communities should use TNCs versus microtransit. The metric reflects a community's consolidation potential and only requires aggregate community data. This allows for mode comparisons without simulation or model optimization. We also find that a regression model based on proxy measures can be used estimate the metric for communities that lack demand data. We apply the metric to the rest of California and find that 24 of 46 communities that currently have microtransit could be well-served by TNCs, suggesting that switching to TNCs may reduce their costs. Of 154 communities that are currently underserved by transit, 78 are identified as strong candidates for TNC partnerships, highlighting a large, untapped market.These findings demonstrate the importance of choosing on-demand modes according to local conditions and provide planners with practical tools to do so. The proposed business plan enables communities to partner with TNCs without sacrificing control or reliability. The plan also creates opportunities for TNCs to assist underserved areas and improve their mobility. The discriminating metric enables a priori mode comparison, mitigating the risk of inefficient partnerships. Together, these contributions help ensure on-demand transit services better align with community goals while making efficient use of limited community resources.This research also highlights areas for future work. The business plan assumes full cooperation from a single TNC and relies on simplified incentive and matching models. Future studies could extend the plan to support multiple operators and refine the simulation to account for proximity-based matching, heterogeneous drivers, and limited driver supply in isolated areas. Expanding datasets and adding explanatory variables could strengthen the regression model's metric estimation capabilities. Finally, future analyses could add other transit modes to the comparison and evaluate them based on measures of performance beyond cost and level of service, such as environmental sustainability or equity of access.
- 일반주제명
- Transportation
- 일반주제명
- Urban planning
- 키워드
- Incentive design
- 키워드
- Microtransit
- 기타저자
- University of California, Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-04B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2025.
■520 ▼aNon-urban communities (i.e., low-density communities in suburban or exurban areas) are increasingly adopting on-demand transit to improve service coverage and rider convenience. These services are typically delivered through partnerships with either microtransit providers (e.g., Via) or transportation network companies (TNCs) (e.g., Uber, Lyft). Although both provide app-based transportation with dynamic routing, they differ in key ways. Microtransit operates fixed size fleets, charges a fixed hourly rate, and consolidates riders with similar trips into shared vehicles. Conversely, TNCs use flexible, crowdsourced fleets; charge per trip served; and serve trips individually. Despite these differences, planning guides often treat the two as interchangeable, offering limited guidance on which mode better suits a given community. Due to past negative experiences with TNCs, most communities favor microtransit, even when TNCs could potentially be more cost-effective.This dissertation addresses two questions: first, how should a business plan be structured to make TNCs want to cooperate with non-urban communities? And second, under what conditions is it better for a community to partner with a cooperative TNC rather than a microtransit provider? To answer these questions, the dissertation makes three contributions: a business plan for cooperative TNC partnerships; an agent-based simulation to model TNC service under the proposed plan; and a design-independent, discriminating metric to guide mode selection.We propose TNC partnerships follow a business plan that uses an intermediary---the service manager---to align stakeholder interests while addressing community concerns about control, transparency, and service reliability. Riders book trips through the service manager's app, enabling real-time performance monitoring and policy enforcement. The service manager also distributes incentives to attract drivers from higher-density areas to the non-urban community, and pays the TNC a bonus for its cooperation. This arrangement preserves TNCs' flexibility and cost advantages in a Pareto-improving way.To compare the business plan's performance against that of existing microtransit systems, we develop an agent-based simulation model of cooperative TNC operations. Three Northern California communities are used as case studies. The simulation replicates community conditions using actual microtransit trip request data. Driver incentives are calculated based on market conditions and are distributed to scale the simulated fleet size according to demand. The case study comparison shows that cooperative TNC partnerships consistently improve levels of service compared to microtransit. However, cost-effectiveness varies with community conditions: TNCs cost less than microtransit in small and low-demand communities because of their low consolidation potential, but TNCs are more expensive in the large, high-demand community where microtransit can consolidate many trips.We generalize the case study results with a design-independent metric that discriminates between when communities should use TNCs versus microtransit. The metric reflects a community's consolidation potential and only requires aggregate community data. This allows for mode comparisons without simulation or model optimization. We also find that a regression model based on proxy measures can be used estimate the metric for communities that lack demand data. We apply the metric to the rest of California and find that 24 of 46 communities that currently have microtransit could be well-served by TNCs, suggesting that switching to TNCs may reduce their costs. Of 154 communities that are currently underserved by transit, 78 are identified as strong candidates for TNC partnerships, highlighting a large, untapped market.These findings demonstrate the importance of choosing on-demand modes according to local conditions and provide planners with practical tools to do so. The proposed business plan enables communities to partner with TNCs without sacrificing control or reliability. The plan also creates opportunities for TNCs to assist underserved areas and improve their mobility. The discriminating metric enables a priori mode comparison, mitigating the risk of inefficient partnerships. Together, these contributions help ensure on-demand transit services better align with community goals while making efficient use of limited community resources.This research also highlights areas for future work. The business plan assumes full cooperation from a single TNC and relies on simplified incentive and matching models. Future studies could extend the plan to support multiple operators and refine the simulation to account for proximity-based matching, heterogeneous drivers, and limited driver supply in isolated areas. Expanding datasets and adding explanatory variables could strengthen the regression model's metric estimation capabilities. Finally, future analyses could add other transit modes to the comparison and evaluate them based on measures of performance beyond cost and level of service, such as environmental sustainability or equity of access.
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■653 ▼aIncentive design
■653 ▼aMicrotransit
■653 ▼aSuburban communities
■653 ▼aTransportation network company
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
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