We have not seen one yet, apart from Uber and Lyft (which we have been grateful for as users already), but when we do see any pure form(s) of this mythical app our support will be early and often:
by Prachi Patel
Sitting in traffic gridlock can cost more than anger and frustration. Traffic jams in the US cost the economy $121 billion every year in lost productive time and 3 billion gallons of fuel burned. It also leads to 25 billion kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions.
Ride-share services such as Uber and Lyft are one way to improve traffic flow. And new research by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers shows that these services, if used cleverly for high-capacity car-pooling, could make a huge dent in emissions and fuel use.
Such programs could reduce the number of vehicles on the roads by 75 percent without slower travel times. Nearly all 13,000 or so taxis in New York City could be replaced by a fleet of only 3,000 four-passenger ride-share cars used for carpooling, the researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
…Source: Javier Alonso-Mora et al. On-demand high-capacity ride-sharing via dynamic trip-vehicle assignment. PNAS. 2016.
Read the whole summary here.
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