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68 Leaders in the transit community are grappling with the future role of products and services influenced by the rapidly advancing ICT sector. Strong differences by age and gender exist in the way in which communications devices are adopted today.
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Information and Communications Technology Might Change the Setting for Transit 69 age, with more than 45% of those over 65 stating the car would be the hardest device to live without (Figure 25)
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70 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation likely to agree with the statement "It is important for me to have access to communication technology throughout the day" as compared with the average response to the statement. Services from Transportation Network Companies TNCs and Transit Use An established player in the set of new travel options are TNCs (e.g., Uber and Lyft)
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Information and Communications Technology Might Change the Setting for Transit 71 Both the Pew study and TCRP Research Report 188: Shared Mobility and the Transformation of Public Transit (Feigon and Murphy 2016) found that people who used ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft were less likely to own a personal vehicle and more likely to use public transit.
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72 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation More Direct Competition with Fixed Route and Schedule Transit? The Slow Emergence of Shared Services While most of the professional literature does not currently focus on new shared service that could compete directly with transit, the emergence of new kinds of shared services is discussed in Special Report 319: Between Public and Private Mobility: Examining the Rise of TechnologyEnabled Transportation Services (Transportation Research Board 2016, p.
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Information and Communications Technology Might Change the Setting for Transit 73 Are Trips Being Replaced by Information Technology? Variation in Telecommuting, by Age Predicting how evolving information technology will affect the total number of trips taken in the future is highly challenging.
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74 Understanding Changes in Demographics, Preferences, and Markets for Public Transportation When Are Trips Substituted? The effect of information technology on travel is most apparent in two areas: 1.
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