Self-organized ridesharing: Multiperspective annotated review
Most cars traversing the roads for commuting purposes travel as single-occupant vehicles, generating externalities in the form of congestion, pollution, and vehicle-miles traveled. A relatively efficient and sustainable transportation option for addressing these concerns is ridesharing—the practice of sharing a car with other passengers, free-of-charge, or expense sharing. The history of ridesharing spans more than a century and includes different initiatives, some offered by official authorities and some arising from spontaneous bottom-up self-organization. This article presents a qualitative multidata-source review aimed at exploring the knowledge base of self-organized ridesharing. The review reveals that: (1) the literature mainly treats self-emergent ridesharing as separate occurrences; (2) these cases have repeated forms, attributes, and influencing factors; (3) practice theory combined with additional framing theories, mainly grassroots innovation (GI), multilevel perspective (MLP), and sharing economy (SE), have the potential to collectively explain some of these cases; and (4) emergence processes and local context hold the key to the success of these cases, yet this is seldom captured in research. The review offers insights into existing self-emerging cases and demonstrates the applicability of findings in analyzing a particular case. It identifies future work required to establish repeated patterns, or a meta-type, capturing self-organized ridesharing.
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- © 2019 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
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Authors:
- Tavory, Sharon Shoshany
- Trop, Tamar
- Shiftan, Yoram
- Publication Date: 2020-2
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 270-279
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Serial:
- International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
- Volume: 14
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISSN: 1556-8318
- EISSN: 1556-8334
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ujst20
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Communities; Complex systems; Literature reviews; Ridesharing; Shared mobility; Sustainable transportation
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01733908
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 20 2020 10:11AM