Queuing models aren’t simple but offer big potential service improvements
Reduce fares in adjacent areas to draw more drivers to where demand is high
Research seeks to predict how time-based price discrimination might spread
A mathematical model analyzes incentives underlying surge-pricing schemes
Municipalities address increased traffic, pollution, taxi company bankruptcies and driver poverty
Technology and “industrialization” are reshaping services as they did manufacturing
A model weighs vehicle cost and ownership to assess benefits to riders, drivers and companies
Operating costs decline when riders get free rentals for docking dying electric vehicles
Airbnb hosts seem to prosper more than Uber drivers
Full-timers gain the least, part-time drivers the most
A second lever, after "surge" pricing, adjusts the supply of drivers