October 31, 2016
Do ride-sourcing drivers discriminate against passengers?
New research by the Sustainable Transportation Lab and collaborators at MIT and Stanford has found that racial and, to a lesser degree, gender discrimination continue to be problems in the transportation sector. There is a long and shameful history of taxis discriminating against black passengers, whether by refusing to stop for them, or avoiding entire…
October 24, 2016
Does Uber equitably serve different types of neighborhoods?
As new mobility services occupy a growing niche in urban transportation, one important question is whether these services are providing equitable access for diverse communities. There are many ways that inequity or discrimination could arise in the provision of these services, and Ryan Hughes and I have recently published a paper in the Journal of…
October 18, 2016
The Simpsons predict the future… of transportation
In The Simpsons fandom, there exists a group that looks at all of the times that The Simpsons have predicted the future, including Trump running for president. One such example that they seemed to have missed is in episode 220 (“Maximum Homerdrive”, from way back in 1999). when Homer falls asleep behind the wheel of…
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