TREND study results: Ride Share pollutes more.

What’s the rational for ride share contributing more to pollution?

70% more polluting than average trip it replaces
deadheading- when drivers travel to pick up a passenger or cruising the streets while waiting for a ride request
40% of the miles logged by Uber and Lyft vehicles in California are deadheading miles
For every 1 mile of ride share, you add .7 miles of driving around
Union of Concerned Scientists study says that people take ride share when they otherwise would have used lower emission options like walking, public transit or biking

Solutions:

California Air Resources Board will promulgate rules for ride share and emissions
Companies could offer incentives to drivers to buy EVs
Legislation to impose rules to reduce ride share’s greenhouse gas emissions
Taxing trips to urban centers to encourage pooled rides and public transit (see Chicago)
Capping ride share driver licenses (see New York)

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