International Conference on Transportation and Development 2022
International Conference on Transportation and Development 2022, ICTD 2022
; 4:239-250, 2022.
Article
in English
| Scopus | ID: covidwho-2062380
ABSTRACT
In 2017, the town of Innisfil, Ontario, launched Innisfil Transit in partnership with Uber, a transportation network company, to provide a subsidized on-demand public mobility service as an alternative to investing in a new fixed-route bus service. The performance of Innisfil Transit is documented in a 2021 Ryerson University report by Sweet, Mitra, and Benaroya, which shows greater cost effectiveness of the mobility provided over the proposed bus alternative. This paper expands on those findings by assessing Innisfil Transit with respect to sustainability, scalability, and resiliency. First, we quantify the energy and emissions of this program relative to traditional transit and driving alone across varying powertrains. We then characterize a conservative first-order estimate of the percentage of US communities that fall within a similar spatial-demographic tier as Innisfil. Replicability also hinges on service cost and performance in comparison to average values for low-density transit in the US. Lastly, most transit agencies experienced a significant drop in demand (as much as 90%) with slowly rebounding ridership since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resiliency of the Innisfil program to the pressures induced by the pandemic is examined in comparison to other transit operations. The lessons learned across these three dimensions complement prior work to better understand the efficiency and sustainability of on-demand public mobility service for low-density communities like Innisfil. © ASCE. All rights reserved.
COVID-19 Recovery; Mobility on Demand; Small Urban and Rural; Transit; Transport Network Companies; Cost effectiveness; Mass transportation; Sustainable development; Transportation routes; Urban transportation; Mobility service; Network company; On demands; Transport network company; Transport networks; Urban and rural; COVID-19
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International Conference on Transportation and Development 2022, ICTD 2022
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2022
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