transportation network company (TNC)

Incentive Systems for New Mobility Services

  • Principal Investigator Meisam Razaviyayn, Ph.D.
  • University of Southern California
In this research, investigators will study and develop mechanisms for offering incentives to organizations and companies to change the behavior of individual drivers in their organization.
Project Status
Complete

Incentive Systems for New Mobility Services

Research Product Type
Research Report
With rapid population growth and urban development, traffic congestion has become an inescapable issue in large metropolitan regions. This research project studies the problem of offering incentives to organizations to change the behavior of their individual drivers (or individuals using their organization’s services).

Incentive Systems for New Mobility Services to Reduce Congestion

Research Product Type
Research Brief
Researchers at the University of Southern California developed a distributed algorithm for offering incentives to organizations to make socially optimal routing decisions designed to lower the traffic flow of congested roads without creating new congestion in other parts of the road network.

New Tool for Gig Drivers Considering Going Electric

Research Product Type
Research Brief
By 2030, the state is targeting 90% of passenger miles traveled on TNCs to be fueled by electricity. To support this objective, UC Davis researchers developed an online tool to help gig drivers understand their potential cost savings from EVs.

Setting TNC Policies to Increase Sustainability

Research Product Type
White Paper
This research aims to assess the goals and effectiveness of the fees and taxes on transportation network company (TNC) platforms in achieving some of policy objectives, such as traffic and emissions mitigation, as well as revenue generation.

Setting Transportation Network Company Policies to Increase Sustainability

Research Product Type
Policy Brief
This policy brief assesses state and local Transportation Network Company taxes across the United States and develops a method of comparing per-ride and percentage taxes in order to the examine the likelihood of these taxes encouraging more sustainable travel.