Presented at the 13th European Sociological Association conference, RN05 & RN09 joint session "Re-thinking market capitalism: the rise of alternative forms of economic exchange", 31 Aug 2017.
This document discusses the phenomenon of the sharing economy and Airbnb. It provides background on Airbnb, describing how it was founded in 2008 and has grown significantly each year. It discusses the economics of Airbnb, including studies that found Airbnb guests tend to stay longer and spend more than traditional tourists. It also discusses how authenticity and a desire for more unique experiences are driving factors for travelers using services like Airbnb.
The inaugural Operation: Big Wheels for Heroes fundraiser organized by Bestpass and the New York State Motor Truck Association was a success, attracting over 500 attendees. The event exceeded its goals of honoring truck drivers, emergency workers, and veterans, raising awareness of the trucking industry, and collecting enough funds to sponsor a truckload of wreaths for Arlington National Cemetery through the Truckload Carriers Association's Truckload of Respect program. A variety of trucks and emergency vehicles were on display for attendees to interact with. The event helped foster a positive public image of the trucking industry by educating attendees and dispelling negative stereotypes.
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Cornell Cooperative Extension, Tompkins County
How Smarter Car Drivers Can Lead to Fuller Buses ~ or ~ Changing Transportation Habits Through Community-Based Social Marketing
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Today’s air, rail and cruise/ferry passengers, conditioned by their interactions with retailers, have different expectations from those held in the past. They expect options during travel, require flexible pricing alternatives and value personalized experiences.
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This document summarizes a study on taxation policies for carsharing services in major U.S. cities. The study finds that nearly a quarter of the largest 40 cities impose retail taxes over 30% on 1-hour carsharing reservations. Nearly half tax 5-hour reservations at over 15%. Average tax rates have risen from 15.6% in 2011 to 17% in 2016. Transaction fees are a barrier to short-term electric vehicle sharing. Rapid changes in mobility options call for more coherent vehicle sharing taxation policies.
Customers perceptions towards ride sharing serviceMd Arif Khan
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This document discusses the phenomenon of the sharing economy and Airbnb. It provides background on Airbnb, describing how it was founded in 2008 and has grown significantly each year. It discusses the economics of Airbnb, including studies that found Airbnb guests tend to stay longer and spend more than traditional tourists. It also discusses how authenticity and a desire for more unique experiences are driving factors for travelers using services like Airbnb.
The inaugural Operation: Big Wheels for Heroes fundraiser organized by Bestpass and the New York State Motor Truck Association was a success, attracting over 500 attendees. The event exceeded its goals of honoring truck drivers, emergency workers, and veterans, raising awareness of the trucking industry, and collecting enough funds to sponsor a truckload of wreaths for Arlington National Cemetery through the Truckload Carriers Association's Truckload of Respect program. A variety of trucks and emergency vehicles were on display for attendees to interact with. The event helped foster a positive public image of the trucking industry by educating attendees and dispelling negative stereotypes.
Chrisophia Somerfeldt
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Cornell Cooperative Extension, Tompkins County
How Smarter Car Drivers Can Lead to Fuller Buses ~ or ~ Changing Transportation Habits Through Community-Based Social Marketing
Transportation alternatives to the 'single occupancy vehicle' make eminent sense ~ but how do we help ordinary people change ingrained transportation habits? A veteran community educator offers some answers, some questions, and an overview of 'Way2Go,' a new "one-stop shopping" community education program designed to promote transportation sustainability and equity.
Consider the role of all-mode transportation education. Explore the vital connection between public transportation, walking, bicycling, ridesharing, carsharing and more. Learn about Community-Based Social Marketing, and how it goes beyond traditional marketing in changing transportation behavoir. Lastly ~ can teaching people with cars how to save on gas, (for example,) really lead to more bus riders? We think so. See Why.
Ecomoco aims to be a representative body for co-mobility and shared-moblity service providers in Europe.
This Charta is a draft document. It is sharing the principles of Collaborative Mobility.
This document discusses various forms of shared mobility including car sharing, ride sharing, and bike sharing. It provides definitions and examples of different models. Station-based and free-floating car sharing are described as well as peer-to-peer models. Ride sharing includes planned commutes without payment, monetized services, and dynamic on-demand options. Bike sharing is discussed including urban networks and last-mile station options. Case studies from Bremen, Ghent, Leeds, and Belgium are also summarized.
Today’s air, rail and cruise/ferry passengers, conditioned by their interactions with retailers, have different expectations from those held in the past. They expect options during travel, require flexible pricing alternatives and value personalized experiences.
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In this Executive Insights Spotlight on Transport, L.E.K. examines the changing behaviors of passengers and reveals how transport providers must act and think differently to implement a differentiated merchandising strategy — one that truly captivates their passengers with personalized, bundled content and connectivity offerings and makes the most of their time on board.
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Alan Pisarski's Presentation to the 2009 Highway Users Annual MeetingJames Barnes
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http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-148918
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Along side with the collaborative consomption, come new economic perspectives in a context where production fails to find destinations. Beyond its business virtues, some see the possibility of a new organization of an environmental friendly and fairer society. Collaborative consumption could be the new barrier to individualist liberalism and immoral capitalism. Yes or no, is collaborative consumption the sign of the end of the world as we know it ?
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Welcome to the ecosystem of the collaborative economyshareNL
The sharing economy’s popularity is increasing. The term, and
organizations often associated with it, such as Airbnb and Uber,
is featured daily in the media. However it is not always clear
what does or doesn’t belong to the collaborative economy;
and what the collaborative economy looks like from the ‘inside’.
Therefore we have created this ecosystem.
Transportation diversity refers to the variety of transportation options available to meet diverse travel needs. It considers modes of travel, substitutes for physical travel, and land use strategies that improve access. A more diverse transportation system provides users with more choices for each trip, increasing efficiency and equity. Improving transportation diversity involves enhancing alternatives to automobile travel and creating more accessible land use options and choices for motorists.
Bike Summit Calls for Changes in Push for Bike Ways - Memphis Daily NewsBike Walk Tennessee
"The city’s former bicycle and pedestrian coordinator who put the city on the map nationally for bike lanes and bikeways says bicycle advocates have to think differently..."
Original Article: https://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2017/may/22/bike-summit-features-call-for-changes-in-push-for-bike-ways/
Memphis Daily News Monday, May 22, 2017
Bike Summit Features Call for Changes in Push for Bike Ways
By Bill Dries
This document summarizes information about carpooling. It defines carpooling as an agreement where multiple people share a privately-owned car for commuting to a common destination. Benefits of carpooling include lower costs through shared fuel and toll expenses, less stress, and reduced environmental impact. However, people may not carpool due to habits, attachment to personal property, desire for freedom, and difficulty coordinating schedules. The document recommends online databases to help match carpoolers.
At iomob we seek to transform urban mobility from its current fragmented state towards a decentralised internet of mobility marketplace. This white paper seeks to explore emerging trends and future directions towards more seamless access to public and private mobility services.
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Between exchange and gift-giving? Economic moralities of self-organised long-distance ridesharing
1. Juhana Venäläinen
PhD, postdoctoral researcher
University of Eastern Finland
juhana.venalainen@uef.fi
Between exchange and gift-giving?
Economic moralities of self-organisedlong-distanceridesharing
13th European Sociological Association Conference / RN05_RN09_07b_P_JS: JOINT SESSION: Re-thinking Market Capitalism:
The Rise of Alternative Forms of Economic Exchange I / Athens, Greece / 31 August 2017
2. — Part of a Kone Foundation funded project "Rights,
excludability, and the social production of value in the models
of the new economy”
— Sub-study: Ridesharing as an interface to the ”sharing
economy”
— Research topics:
— Social dynamics of the ridesharing groups and the role of technological
platforms in shaping them
— Motivations of the providers and users, and the understandings of the
"economic" characteristics of ridesharing
— The potential tensions with traditional public transport services and
the more business-oriented understandings of the sharing economy
3. — 1. Contextualizing self-organised
long-distance ridesharing in Finland
— 2. Economic moralities of ridesharing,
and the problem of a just price
— 3. Concluding remarks:
Political undertones of ridesharing
4. — In 2010s, long-distance (i.e. city-to-city)
ridesharing in Finland has been mostly
organized through Facebook groups
established and moderated by individual
persons
— Over250 000 members in ca. 160 groups
(c.f. population of 5m in Finland)
— Groups typically named eitherby
destination, origin, area, orcertain route
5. ”Journey starts from Joensuu around six in the morning.
The route goes through Lappeenranta. There is space for
two passengers in the car.”
6. — A systemof co-operationand peer production between strangers
— Provides meansof subsistencewith less dependenceon money
— Upscales and de-personifies traditional practicesof mutualaid
— Contributes toa kind of ”transportcommons” /
mobility “commoning” (see De Angelis 2017)
— The self-organized model contrastswith the commercial mobile-
app based sharing platforms (such as BlaBlaCar) popular in
many Europeancountries
7. What kind of economic moralities
characterise ridesharing as an
institution of sharing?
8. David Graeber (2014): ”On the Moral Grounds of
Economic Relations. A Maussian Approach.”
"I wish to propose three fundamentally
different moral logics lying behind
phenomena that we class together as ’the
gift’. These exist everywhere in different
forms and articulations, so that in any
given situation there are several kinds of
moral reasoning actors could apply. "
10. — Research material: Three conversations
(related to polls) about the acceptable
price of a ride from the Finland’s biggest
ridesharing group in 2014–2015
— 387 posts
— Arguments identified and classified in two
iterations (#1: 12 categories, #2: 4
categories)
11. CO-PRODUCTION (DOING TOGETHER), COMMUNALITY, SOCIABILITY, ECOLOGICAL VALUES,
GOOD SPIRIT, CHATTING, TRAVEL COMPANION, SHARING THE LABOUR OF DRIVING
— ”It feels like the nitpickers in this group have lost this certain principle
of communality […] like that you do something together, and then at the
same time, both will get something for themselves, like a good mood, a
little bit of money for gasoline, or nice companion. […] You don't have to
take ridesharers, if the motive is to make them pay for the expenses of
your car.”
12. NOMINAL FEE, "SOMETHING FOR ONE'S PAINS", "PAY WHAT YOU WANT", POSSIBILITY TO PAY
OR NOT TO PAY, NO PROFIT MOTIVE, NO BUSINESS, NO EARNING, NO BILLING OF ACTUAL
EXPENSES, ONE MAY ASK FOR MONEY BUT NOT DEMAND IT
— ”I have always written in my own posts that a ridesharer may decide to
pay or not to pay a sum of his/her choice. Every time someone has paid
something, but my principle is that if someone needs a ride but doesn't
have money, they can still join in.”
13. FIXED PRICE PER KILOMETER, PRICE BASED ON AVG. CONSUMPTION OF FUEL, PRICE BASED
ON MILEAGE ALLOWANCE RELIEF, FIXED PRICE FOR A ROUTE, A "REASONABLE" OR "RIGHT"
PRICE
— "There is a law mandating that one can only share the fuel expenses. I
myself divided the average consumption [of fuel] between passengers
based on how many kilometers they travelled. […]"
14. QUESTION OF FAIR PRICE AS ”EVERYONE’S OWN BUSINESS” OR ”SOMETHING NOT TO BE
DISCUSSED ABOUT”, NEGOTIATION OF THE PRICE AS A MUTUAL CONTRACT, PRICE AS A
NATURAL OUTCOME OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND
— ”I think it gets too complicated if you start to think about the price in
too much detail. Things get messy if soon no one knows how much to
ask or how much to pay for a ride. Just settle it with mutually with the
driver, vice versa, and that’s it.”
16. COMMUNISM
altruistic mutuality
permanent ”indebtness”
economy as conviviality
EXCHANGE
calculative mutuality
temporary transactions
independence
1. Producing
common
good
2. Minimal
money-
mediatedness
4. Individualized
quasi-market
3. Calculative
fairness
social production of
extra-economic
value as a goal in
itself
money as a nominal
”token” that
expresses trustand
prevents free-riding
pricing based on
allegedly objective
criteria
pricing as a private
affair between the
ridetaker and the
ridegiver
17. — Discussionabout money and the just price of a ride
brings about the political undertone of ridesharing
— Ridesharingis influencedby various (and partly conflicting) forms
of economicreasoning
— The ”communist” moral logics in ridesharingemphasize ”extra-
economic” prioritiesandmotivationssuch as subsistence, care,
mutual aid, distribution of surplus, and conviviality
— In this sense, ridesharingis notonly about tacklingthe obvious
inefficiency of the transportsystembased on private cars, but about
a practical experimentationof trying to rethink,reframe andre-
experience”the economy”
19. — De Angelis, Massimo (2017) Omnia sunt communia. London: Zed Books.
— Finnish Transport Agency (2012) National Transport Survey 2010–2011. Helsinki:
Finnish Transport Agency.
http://www2.liikennevirasto.fi/julkaisut/pdf3/lr_2012_henkiloliikennetutkimus_we
b.pdf
— Graeber, David (2014) On the moral grounds of economic relations: A Maussian
approach. Journal f Classical Sociology 14 (1), 65–77.
— Light, Ann & Miskelly, Clodagh (2015) Sharing Economy vs Sharing Cultures?
Designing for social, economic and environmental good. InteractionDesignand
Architectures 24, 49–62.
— Cover photo: Ant_S95: M30 Traffic light trails (Flickr.com, cc by-nc)