Comment by patmorgan23
17 hours ago
What's the highest capacity vehicle Uber has ever operated? Because Tranist can move thousands of people with a single operator
17 hours ago
What's the highest capacity vehicle Uber has ever operated? Because Tranist can move thousands of people with a single operator
In the whole universe of intellectually honest, valuable benchmarks for transportation, do you think ride sharing wins on zero?
I’ll give you an important one as an example: door to door journey times. I support RTO, which is the best way to improve that metric for the average person, which is to say, I was hoping this would be a discussion for out of the box thinking. Or really, what do you invest millions of infrastructure bucks into? All of Uber was only a little more expensive than a single high speed rail line. Why can’t cities run ride share? Why would they run ride share worse than a train service?
Door-to-door time is going to severely suffer on Uber if (and cars in general) are the only option in dense cities. They'll spend most of their time sitting in traffic.
Once you reach a certian density, cars just take up too much space on the road for the number of people they carry, and the only way to meaninfully reduce traffic congestion is to take people out of cars and onto higher-capacity transit.
We already know ride-sharing can't scale up unless your city has super low population density.
> All of Uber was only a little more expensive than a single high speed rail line.
And charges/charges more for the service rendered, and still makes a loss.
And if the city would charge for the taxi service... Why run it when other operators can and do? And multiple operators can effectively compete.
> All of Uber was only a little more expensive than a single high speed rail line
Sure, if you don't count the vehicles and the roads – the actual _transportation_ bit