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Key findings from the "Smart mobility" study

by Peter Viechnicki, Tiffany Fishman, William D. Eggers
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    19 May 2015

    Key findings from the "Smart mobility" study Part of the "Smart mobility" research report

    19 May 2015
    • Peter Viechnicki United States
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    • William D. Eggers United States
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    How could ridesharing, bike commuting, carsharing, and on-demand ride services transform urban mobility in America?

    To investigate the benefits your metropolitan area can reap from expanding shared transportation and bike commuting, we invite you to explore the potential savings table and the accompanying map, which explore the mobility potential of individual neighborhoods within larger census tracts.

    As new business models powered by the sharing economy converge with disruptive technologies in the transportation sector, alternative modes of commuting are changing how people get around in major metropolitan areas across America. Four of these modes hold considerable promise for easing gridlock at a far lower cost than traditional approaches to congestion reduction, and offer large individual and societal savings: real-time ridesharing, bike commuting, carsharing, and on-demand ride services (e.g., the ride services offered by Uber and Lyft).

    To understand which major metropolitan areas stand to gain the most from better congestion reduction strategies, we analyzed commuter behavior data at the census-tract level to formulate estimates of the potential savings if commuters who could reasonably use alternative transportation modes were to do so. We found that:

    • Real-time ridesharing has the potential to yield $30.3 billion in annual savings, reduce annual traffic accidents by almost 23,000, and lower carbon dioxide emissions by 9.1 million metric tons annually.
    • Bike commuting—perhaps surprisingly—offers almost as high potential savings: We estimate that it could yield $27.6 billion in annual savings spread between commuters and cities, and reduce carbon emissions by 5.0 million metric tons annually.
    • Carsharing can provide up to $4.3 billion in annual savings in our estimation. It could lower annual accidents by more than 2,000 and carbon emissions by just shy of a million metric tons a year.
    • On-demand ride services have the potential to substitute shared rides for some taxi trips, and could thereby reduce total taxi trip miles in some cities by 30 percent, though this potential is only beginning to be realized.

    The potential benefits from these four modes are unevenly distributed across America’s cities as well as within each city. Carsharing works best in dense urban cores. On-demand ride services have the greatest effects by extending taxi services to underserved portions of cities. Ridesharing will often provide the greatest returns in a ring 10 to 15 miles outside the city center, and bike commuting can provide benefits both in neighborhoods in the urban core and in “edge cities” clustered around suburban commercial centers.

    Achieving these benefits won’t be easy. Cultivating and expanding alternative mobility ecosystems will require us to rethink our transportation investments, shifting our focus from simply maximizing vehicle throughput to moving users as efficiently as possible through any of a variety of modes.

    In the report Smart mobility: Reducing congestion and fostering faster, greener, and cheaper transportation options,we offer a series of detailed policy recommendations for each mode that can help policymakers and city planners begin to reap the benefits of these alternative commuting modes. To investigate the benefits your metropolitan area can reap from expanding shared transportation and bike commuting, we invite you to explore the potential savings table and the accompanying map, which explore the mobility potential of individual neighborhoods within larger census tracts.

    Explore our collection of research on smart mobility at the links below.

    • Key findings from the smart mobility study
    • The promise of smart mobility
    • Ridesharing
    • Bike commuting
    • Carsharing
    • On-demand ride services
    • Alternative transportation atlas (interactive map)
    • Impact by metropolitan area (interactive table)
    • FULL REPORT—Smart mobility: Reducing congestion and fostering faster, greener, and cheaper transportation options
    Credits

    Written by: Peter Viechnicki, Tiffany Fishman, William D. Eggers

    Cover image by: ilovedust

    Acknowledgements

    The authors would like to thank the following individuals for providing helpful input into this research: Steve Keathley and Jim Templeton of Deloitte Consulting LLP; Kathryn Alsegaf and Maureen Johnson of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited; Bharath Gangula, Steve Schmith, Daniel Byler, Patricia Buckley, and Danny Bachman of Deloitte Services LP; Peggy Tadej at the Northern Virginia Regional Council; Allen Greenberg at the US Federal Highway Administration; Lisa Rayle of the University of California, Berkeley; Todd Litman of the Victoria Transportation Policy Institute; Kris Keith of the Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority Support Team; Carl Eppich, Ben Lake, Rick Harbison, and John Duncan of the Greater Portland (Maine) Council of Governments; Lori Kaplan and Andrew McGee of the Central Indiana Regional Transportation Authority; Bruce Wright of the Fairfax Alliance for Better Biking; and Elizabeth DeJesus of the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization; and Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation.

    The authors would also like to thank Kenny Ling, Amit Shivpuja, Clare Stankwitz, Zach Whitman, Zac Andereck, and Matthew Gentile for their assistance with the geospatial components of this project. The authors would like to extend special thanks to Pankaj Kishnani for his extensive research support, and also thank Vikrant Jain, Mohinder Sutrave, Pulkit Kapoor, Amrita Datar, Mahesh Kelkar, and Nikita Shah of Deloitte Services LP—India for their contributions to this research. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the congestion data provided by the Texas Transportation Institute in their 2012 urban mobility report, which was central to our calculations.

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    Peter Viechnicki

    Peter Viechnicki

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    Peter is a strategic analysis manager and data scientist with the Deloitte Center for Government Insights, where he focuses on developing innovative public sector research using geospatial and natural language processing techniques.

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    Tiffany Fishman

    Tiffany Fishman

    Senior Manager | Deloitte Services LP

    Tiffany is a senior manager with the Deloitte Center for Government Insights. Her research and client work focuses on how emerging issues in technology, business, and society will impact organizations. She has written extensively on a wide range of public policy and management issues, from health and human services reform to the future of transportation and the transformation of higher education. Her work has appeared in a number of publications, including Public CIO, Governing, and EducationWeek.

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    William D. Eggers

    William D. Eggers

    Executive director

    Bill is the executive director of Deloitte Services LP’s Center for Government Insights where he is responsible for the firm’s public sector thought leadership. His latest book is Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies that are Transforming Government (Deloitte Insights, 2016). His eight other books include The Solution Revolution: How Government, Business, and Social Enterprises are Teaming up to Solve Society’s Biggest Problems (Harvard Business Review Press 2013). The book, which The Wall Street Journal calls “pulsating with new ideas about civic and business and philanthropic engagement,” was named to ten best books of the year lists. His other books include The Washington Post best seller If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government (Harvard Business Press, 2009), Governing by Network (Brookings, 2004), and The Public Innovator’s Playbook (Deloitte Research 2009). He coined the term Government 2.0 in a book by the same name. His commentary has appeared in dozens of major media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

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