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Shared transport or shared mobility is a transportation system where travelers share a vehicle either simultaneously as a group (e.g. ride-sharing) or over time (e.g. carsharing or bike sharing) as personal rental, and in the process share the cost of the journey.
A vehicle for hire is a vehicle providing private transport or shared transport for a fee, in which passengers are generally free to choose their points or approximate points of origin and destination, unlike public transport, and which they do not drive themselves, as in car rental and carsharing. They may be offered via a ridesharing company.
Peer-to-peer carsharing is a form of person-to-person lending or collaborative consumption, as part of the sharing economy. [1] The business model is closely aligned with traditional car clubs such as Streetcar or Zipcar (est. in 2000), [2] but replaces a typical fleet with a ‘virtual’ fleet made up of vehicles from participating owners. [3]
Intelligent transportation systems are becoming increasingly important for managing transportation networks. ITS can improve traffic flow, enhance safety, and potentially reduce car insurance costs.
The first reference to car sharing in print identifies the Selbstfahrergenossenschaft car share program in a housing cooperative that began in Zürich in 1948. [2] [3] By the 1960s, as innovators, industrialists, cities, and public authorities studied the possibility of high-technology transportation – mainly computer-based small vehicle systems (almost all of them on separate guideways ...
Personal public transport (PPT) is a network of private rental vehicles for users to drive, distributed at fixed locations throughout an area and available to the general public in such a way that each user has the ability to determine the route and schedule on a self-service basis (without advance prebooking).
The legality of ridesharing companies by jurisdiction varies; in some areas they are considered to be illegal taxi operations, while in other areas, they are subject to regulations that can include requirements for driver background checks, fares, caps on the number of drivers in an area, insurance, licensing, and minimum wage.
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