Trade Uber for the Bus? Social Sciences. Book Review

Trade Uber for the Bus?
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Trade Uber for the Bus?
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The article is organized into several sections to reflect the various stages of research. This includes the introduction, the literature review, and the presentation of findings, discussions, and finally a conclusion. The article focuses on the changes in travel dynamics since the inception of Uber in 2010. In this case, the availability of choices between ride-hail and transit has ensured various changes and adjustments amongst travelers. This entails changes in ride-hail user characteristics, socio-demographic changes, as well as trip-related factors that have influenced to a greater extent the choice of traveling mode amongst travelers. This study focuses on providing evidence that serves to remind local authorities on the appropriate identification of the travel needs across the social classes. It provides the evidence to those who would love to have a convenient traveling mode despite the rare existence of affordable as well as convenient alternatives. The findings of the research conducted further reveal the importance of the time components, whereby the trip duration determines the choice between ride-hail and transit. The information serves the purposes of giving a better understanding of the efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the ride-hail that would influence service improvements. The survey as provided tends towards exploring the relationship that exists between the ride-hail and the transit mode. In this case, the author builds on the previous literature for the purposes of establishing this relationship through the analysis that encompasses descriptive statistics and other methods on the factors affecting individual-level trade-offs between ride-hail as well as transit amongst the users of the ride-hail. The examination of the ride-hail user characteristics alongside their preferences is conducted within a setting that has extensive and dynamic public transport network. This could amount to results that can be authentically used for generalization purposes in other regions of the world (Dong, 2020).
The general discussion that follows the choice experiment that allows the participants to choose on the non-shared options and further between transit and ride-hail, shows the real picture on the dynamics that exist in the socio-demographic status of the users. The article reveals that the choice of attributes applicable resulted from the other literature reviews as well as previous survey studies on ride-hail. The nature of the survey used in this article which was online may have possibly misrepresented the gender balance required for such a study. The demographic background of the user influences to a greater extent their willingness to choose ride-hail over transit as a mode of travel. At the same time, the article answers the question of the adoption of sustainable transport activities amongst travelers through the provision of an understanding of the various factors that currently influence choices of travel modes amongst families and at individual levels (Dong, 2020).
“Thus, the ride-hail user characteristics in the Philadelphia metropolitan area described by the NHTS might not be representative of the characteristics of users in the study area. In the NHTS, 88 observations in the Philadelphia metropolitan area meet the user criteria for the present survey study.” (Dong, 2020)
The premise of this article focuses on the factors that are likely to have potential effects on the mode choice and behavior that equally serves as an open question when it comes to empirical examination. The research questions of the study are thoroughly addressed through the application of comprehensive theoretical, partially empirical and analytical approaches that entail primary and secondary data. However, it could have been better in the inclusion of a conceptual diagram that adequately reflects the approach used and provides guidance to the empirical analysis. The literature review in the article does well in assembling the ideas from different studies that are relevant for understanding the ride-hail and transit ...