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American ride-sharing company
Lyft, Inc. is an American company offering ride-hailing services, e-scooters, and bicycle-sharing systems in the United States and Canada, and, via its Freenow mobile app, Europe. Lyft is the second-largest ridesharing company in the United States after Uber. It has 25 million active riders and coordinates 9 million rides per day. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: LyftA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Demand Interactions in Sharing Economies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Airbnb and Uber/LyftInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Transportation Network Companies and TaxisThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: What drives the use of ridehailing in California? Ordered probit models of the usage frequency of Uber and LyftCited 208 times
- Go sideways: Logan GreenA closely related topic
- Go sideways: ZimrideA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
What drives the use of ridehailing in California? Ordered probit models of the usage frequency of Uber and Lyft
Calculating Life Years from Transplant (LYFT): Methods for Kidney and Kidney-Pancreas Candidates
Can sharing a ride make for less traffic? Evidence from Uber and Lyft and implications for cities
Emissions benefits of electric vehicles in Uber and Lyft ride-hailing services
Free to Work Anxiously: Splintering Precarity Among Drivers for Uber and Lyft
Regulating TNCs: Should Uber and Lyft set their own rules?
An empirical analysis of taxi, Lyft and Uber rides: Evidence from weather shocks in NYC
How cities use regulation for innovation: the case of Uber, Lyft and Sidecar in San Francisco
🆕 Influential since 2022
Demand Interactions in Sharing Economies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Airbnb and Uber/Lyft
Left-Digit Bias at Lyft
Evaluation of a hyaluronic acid hydrogel (Restylane Lyft) as a scaffold for dental pulp regeneration in a regenerative endodontic organotype model
Life Cycle Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gas, and Traffic Externality Benefits and Costs of Electrifying Uber and Lyft
Wheelchair Users’ Perspective on Transportation Service Hailed Through Uber and Lyft Apps
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Transportation Network Companies and TaxisCraig A. Leisy · 2019
- 📕The rideshare guideHarry Campbell · 2018
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