Lyft and urban mobility

Lyft and urban mobility

摘要

Lyft moves people through space and time. But where those people move, and why, is up to them. Lyft’s riders use our services to get to and from work, go out to dinner, visit family, and get to the airport. When and where they do so tells us a lot about urban mobility — whether and how the notions of neighborhood, geography, and landscape shape how people move through space.

Here we share what we can learn from long-run patterns on Lyft’s operations in major US cities. We see that cities vary a lot internally in how people travel, where, and when. That diversity implies a need for a diverse range of products and services. But, strikingly, we also see how cities resemble each other — that sometimes, common patterns, like urban downtowns, look more like other cities’ downtowns than they do their companion suburbs.