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1、字?jǐn)?shù)：英文 字?jǐn)?shù)：英文 3214 3214 單詞， 單詞，18240 18240 字符；中文 字符；中文 5795 5795 漢字 漢字出處： 出處：Seth Seth D Contreras,Alexander Contreras,Alexander Paz.The Paz.The effects effects of of ride-hailing ride-hailing companies companies on on the

2、 the taxicab taxicab industry industry in in Las Las Vegas, Vegas, Nevada[J]Transportation Nevada[J]Transportation Research Research Part Part A: A: Policy Policy and and Practice.2017 Practice.2017外文文獻(xiàn)： 外文文獻(xiàn)： The effect

3、s of ride-hailing companies on the taxicab industry in Las Vegas, NevadaAbstract Ride-hailing, or ride-sourcing, companies continue to penetrate the growing market of transportation-for-hire services in major metropolit

4、an cities all across the globe, both revolutionizing travel and redefining the concept of the taxicab experience. Since the fall of 2015, Las Vegas, Nevada, was added to the ever-growing list of metropolises with such ri

5、de-hailing companies (RHCs). For cities whose economies are built predominately on the foundations of tourism, questions inevitably have been raised regarding the effects that RHCs have on their respective transportation

6、 system operators, in particular, the taxicab industry. In Las Vegas, services such as Uber (Uber Technologies Inc.) and Lyft (Lyft.com) compete directly with the taxicab industry for riders within the resort corridor an

7、d across the valley. In this study, a multinomial linear regression analysis used a multi-modal, time-series travel dataset to estimate the effects of RHCs on taxicab ridership. After controlling for a number of explanat

8、ory variables, including the total number of monthly visitors, transit ridership, ride-hailing trip counts to/from the airport and several other socioeconomic indicators, the results showed that RHCs do in fact have a ne

9、gative, and significant, effect on taxicab ridership. A perhaps more profound and counterintuitive finding however was that transit ridership along the resort corridor actually complements (rather than competes with) tax

10、i ridership; this could have competitors of RHCs, specifically the taxicab industry in Las Vegas, Nevada.With the observed growing popularity, in conjunction with the continuous exponential evolution of ride-hailing serv

11、ices across the nation, it is vital for transportation agencies and policy makers alike to fully understand, from all angles, the observed effects and implications to the transport system as a result of newly added opera

12、tors. This study can help assist decision makers in ascertaining even further the extent of the ride-hailing industry and some of the effects, both positive and negative, that could be expected for areas similar to Las V

13、egas. These include metropolitan areas and economies that receive a significant number of domestic travelers and international tourists on an annual basis.The ensuing analysis and discussion is only the tip of the iceber

14、g, so to speak, with regard to ride-hailing services. It is an obligation of those who have the ability to conduct such technical analyses to observe, measure, quantify, and estimate the data as well as draw objective co

15、nclusions and recommendations for those in charge of making the decisions that affect how a transportation system operates and functions.2.Literature reviewDr. Susan Shaheen, Co-Director of the Transportation Sustainabil

16、ity Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, best summarizes the current atmosphere of the ride-hailing industry by concisely labeling the movement as the ‘Sharing Economy’ (Transportation and Sharing E

17、conomy, 2014). With the ever-evolving car-sharing and bike-sharing markets sprouting across the globe (Shaheen et al., 2009, 2013), combined with the growing percentage of individuals who own personal smartphones, rideha

18、iling services enhances this Sharing Economy, by instigating an overhaul of both the public transit (Murphy, 2016) and taxicab industries (Sun and Edara, 2015; Between Public and Mobility, 2016). In an intercept survey c