Bridging the Income and Digital Divide with Shared Automated Electric Vehicles

March 2021

By: Gordon Bauer, University of California, Berkeley

https://doi.org/10.7922/G2707ZQ4
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Shared Mobility

This report explores strategies to increase the mobility of low-income transportation users by incentivizing the use of electric, shared automated vehicles and public transit. The study uses simulations to estimate the changes in travel behavior in response to subsidies for transportation network companies (TNCs) and public transit. Some of the findings in the research suggest that reductions in the cost of TNCs are necessary to increase the number of low-income mobility users.