What influences travelers to use Uber? Exploring the factors affecting the adoption of on-demand ride services in California

Travel Behaviour and Society

Volumn 13, Issue , 2018, Pages 88-104

  Alemi, Farzad ^a   Circella, Giovanni ^a   Handy, Susan ^a   Mokhtarian, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifestyles; Lyft; Millennials; On demand ride services; Ridehailing; Ridesourcing; Shared mobility; Uber

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050380168     PISSN: 2214367X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tbs.2018.06.002     Document Type: Article

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