Ride sharing study in Los Angeles

Mark Kleiman reports in a blog called The Reality-Based Community on a study in Los Angeles comparing ride-sharing with the regulated taxi industry

...anyone who asserts that ride-sharing services disadvantage poor people or poor neighborhoods is making a claim that is not merely unsupported but actually contrary to the findings of the one systematic study of that question. The evidence in hand strongly suggests that UberX outperforms conventional taxis in serving low-income neighborhoods, at least in Los Angeles.

The study found that the ride-sharing companies were

twice as fast, half as expensive.

Read more here.