Ride-hailing services: Competition or complement to public transport to reduce accident rates. The case of Madrid

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Title: Ride-hailing services: Competition or complement to public transport to reduce accident rates. The case of Madrid
Authors: Flor García, María | Ortuño Padilla, Armando | Guirao, Begoña
Research Group/s: Ingeniería del Transporte, Territorio y Medio Litoral (AORTA) | Economía de la Vivienda y Sector Inmobiliario (ECOVISI)
Center, Department or Service: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario del Agua y las Ciencias Ambientales
Keywords: Ride-hailing | Road safety | Injuries | Traffic fatalities | Public transport
Issue Date: 27-Jul-2022
Publisher: Frontiers Media
Citation: Flor M, Ortuño A and Guirao B (2022) Ride-hailing services: Competition or complement to public transport to reduce accident rates. The case of Madrid. Front. Psychol. 13:951258. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.951258
Abstract: Introduction: The transport and mobility sector is experiencing profound transformations. These changes are mainly due to: environmental awareness, the increase in the population of large urban areas and the size of cities, the aging of the population and the emergence of relevant technological innovations that have changed consumption habits, such as electronic commerce or the sharing economy. The introduction of new services such as Uber or Cabify is transforming urban and metropolitan mobility, which has to adapt to this new scenario and the very concept of mobility. Objective: Thus, the purpose of this study was to evaluate whether ride-hailing platforms substitute or complement public transport to reduce accident rates, considering the two basic transport zones of Madrid: “The Central Almond” and the periphery. Methods: The data were collected from the 21 districts of Madrid for the period 2013–2019, and they were analyzed by a Random Effects Negative Binominal model. Results: The results obtained in this study suggest that since the arrival of Uber and Cabify to the municipality of Madrid the number of fatalities and serious injuries in traffic accidents has been reduced. Traffic accidents on weekends and holidays, with at least one serious injury or death, have also been reduced. However, the number of minor injuries has increased in the central districts of Madrid. Conclusion: Overall, what was found in this study supports the hypothesis that these services replace the urban buses. However, these services improve the supply to users with greater difficulties to access taxis or public transport, constituting an alternative mode of transport for high-risk drivers. Therefore, such findings may be quite useful for policy makers to better define regulatory policies for these services.
Sponsor: María Flor García is currently developing her doctoral thesis on sharing economy and mobility and received an FPU grant from the University of Alicante: UAFPU2018–028.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/126144
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.951258
Language: eng
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Rights: © 2022 Flor, Ortuño and Guirao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Peer Review: si
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.951258
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