Built Environments and Ride-Sharing Accessibility

Mingshu Wang (University of Glasgow)

Wednesday 24th January 13:00-14:00 Maths 311B

Abstract

The proliferation of ride-sharing services (e.g., Uber) has created ripples regarding theoretical and analytical notions in geodata science, urban studies, and transportation research. Some scholarly interest in the accessibility of ridesharing services stems from debates within the transportation and planning communities on the inequality of access to transit and the growing digital divide embedded within novel forms of transit services. Contributing to such discussions, we have applied spatial models to explore the links between the spatial disparity of accessibility to different Uber ridesharing products and built environment features. In this talk, I would like to elaborate on three empirical studies on such a relationship in the city of Atlanta, USA.

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