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The effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity
The impact of app-based e-hailing or ridesourcing services on various transport metrics is an area of active research, and research so far have focused on the car-based (or four-wheeled vehicle based) services only. In many cities in the developing and emerging countries, motorcycle-based passenger...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7264038/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32508400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.05.002 |
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description | The impact of app-based e-hailing or ridesourcing services on various transport metrics is an area of active research, and research so far have focused on the car-based (or four-wheeled vehicle based) services only. In many cities in the developing and emerging countries, motorcycle-based passenger e-hailing services have become very popular in the last few years, but the implications of these have not been studied before. This study investigates the effects of motorcycle-hailing apps in Dhaka – a megacity in Bangladesh – on the size of its motorcycle fleet. We employ segmented multiple regression on timeseries data to show that there was a statistically significant increase in motorcycle ownership in Dhaka as a result of the motorcycle-hailing services. The findings were also supported by a visual intervention analysis. By the end of 2018, there were 7.45% more motorcycles in Dhaka than there would have been if these app-based e-hailing services were not available. We conclude with potential implications of these increases in motorcycle numbers and future research directions. |
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spelling | pubmed-72640382020-06-02 The effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity Wadud, Zia Transp Res Part A Policy Pract Article The impact of app-based e-hailing or ridesourcing services on various transport metrics is an area of active research, and research so far have focused on the car-based (or four-wheeled vehicle based) services only. In many cities in the developing and emerging countries, motorcycle-based passenger e-hailing services have become very popular in the last few years, but the implications of these have not been studied before. This study investigates the effects of motorcycle-hailing apps in Dhaka – a megacity in Bangladesh – on the size of its motorcycle fleet. We employ segmented multiple regression on timeseries data to show that there was a statistically significant increase in motorcycle ownership in Dhaka as a result of the motorcycle-hailing services. The findings were also supported by a visual intervention analysis. By the end of 2018, there were 7.45% more motorcycles in Dhaka than there would have been if these app-based e-hailing services were not available. We conclude with potential implications of these increases in motorcycle numbers and future research directions. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-07 2020-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7264038/ /pubmed/32508400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.05.002 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Wadud, Zia The effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity |
title | The effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity |
title_full | The effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity |
title_fullStr | The effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity |
title_full_unstemmed | The effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity |
title_short | The effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity |
title_sort | effects of e-ridehailing on motorcycle ownership in an emerging-country megacity |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7264038/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32508400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.05.002 |
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