From Pilots to Stable Services: Documenting the Rise and Diversity of Microtransit in the U.S.

From Pilots to Stable Services: Documenting the Rise and Diversity of Microtransit in the U.S.

In 2014, the emergence of public on-demand, ride-sharing services, known as microtransit, (re)captured the attention of techno-positive urbanists. Echoing the same arguments for demand- response transit in the 1970s, new transit technology startups like Via, Chariot, and Bridj touted microtransit as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Humann, McKenzie
Other Authors:	Duarte, Fábio
Format:	Thesis
Published:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156130

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