Sentences with phrase «more ride sharing»

Incorporating more ride sharing and public transit was the only scenario that matched with a pathway to keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius.

The most advanced scenario in the report requires people to change their behavior, using substantially more ride sharing, public transport, cycling and walking.

Not exact matches

Take Uber, for example: The ride - sharing company has taken a foray into the world of food delivery, and the service — which, according to The New York Times, is available in 120 markets worldwide — sometimes earns more than Uber's original offering.

In an interview late last year, Patrick Nangle — who recently took the helm at Vancouver ride - sharing co-op Modo after years of running Purolator — said one of the best things about his new job is that he now gets to spend a lot more time talking to people on the front lines.

• Grab, a ride - sharing company serving Southeast Asian markets, plans to raise more than $ 1.5 billion in a funding round led by SoftBank, according to Bloomberg.

Ride - sharing company Lyft has expanded its operations in the United States by more than 50 % in the past eight months, taking advantage of problems at rival company Uber to capture new market share.

But she's going to face pressure to liberate high - tech, high - growth units such as ride - sharing / hailing division Maven and self - driving entity Cruise, mainly to deliver more returns on the stock price.

Uber's latest investment in Brazil comes just weeks after Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride - hailing company, announced it was investing more than $ 100 million in Brazilian company 99, an on - demand taxi and ride sharing service.

And there are more reasons for buyers to be wary: Chiefly, the fact that if interest in ride and car - sharing continues to pick up, those parking spaces could start to lose value.

Elaine Chao, the President - elect's pick for Secretary of Transportation, plans to push for less regulation for ride - sharing companies and wants more Americans to take part in the gig economy.

While there are no current estimates for market capitalization overall, Uber, the company that specializes in ride - sharing, recently was valued at more than $ 18 billion, and various reports place Airbnb's value at $ 10 billion.

Seattle's Pronto launched in March amid bike - share systems» ascent from urban novelty to legitimate transportation technology, one that last year served up 28 million U.S. rides in more than 50 cities.

In Uber terms, it's less like an UberX ride that just transports one person and more like UberPool, the version of the ride - sharing service that lets commuters offer to drive other people to work with them.

About a year after Alta launched a program in Washington, D.C., the city celebrated its one - millionth shared - bike ride, far exceeding expectations and prompting calls for more bikes and more stations.

«The more shared rides and clean vehicles on the platform, the fewer carbon offsets we will need to purchase.»

In fact, Uber has shown that using their ride - sharing feature called Uber Pool is less expensive and more convenient than owning a car — in the short term and long term.

More than 1,000 Uber drivers are banding together in New York — the birthplace of the organized U.S. labor movement — to create an association that can represent their collective interests to the ride - sharing company's management.

Dining includes things like restaurants, bars, pubs, coffee shops, and more, while travel includes airfare, hotels, Airbnb, taxis, ride - share services like Uber and Lyft, subways, and more.

Waze is starting to look a lot more like a ride - sharing network.

Ride - and car - share services are becoming more popular with millennials, yet a new study finds the group is finally warming up to ownership.

Ride - share apps are changing the way people think about travel, delivery and more.

The ride - sharing company's finance chief is ready to retire after two years of helping drive the firm's valuation to more than $ 40 billion.

Pay - per - use services such as car - sharing and ride - hailing are starting to challenge traditional car ownership in some in some of China's most congested cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, while global automakers are starting to bill themselves as «mobility» companies that do more than just build and sell vehicles.

In the United States Lyft is telling investors it «will have boosted its share of U.S. ride - hailing business some 61 percent by the end of the year, climbing to about a third of the market»; what is even more damaging is Lyft's partnership with Waymo, which made Lyft the best way to invest in Google's self - driving technology — Google apparently agreed, leading a $ 1.5 billion investment that Lyft announced this week.

H&R Block's Charney notes that last - minute surprises may become more common as larger numbers of Americans earn self - employment income from things such as driving for a ride - sharing service, renting out a room in their home, or performing consulting services.

Private car ownership is more aspirational in India, a country with growing Internet access and a large population of young people who are concerned about pollution and open to ride - sharing.

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber Technologies Inc., in its search for a No. 2 to Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, is interviewing candidates with track records in large, established companies — a sign the ride - sharing titan is looking to temper Mr. Kalanick's idiosyncrasies in exchange for a corporate culture more typically in tune with its size and ambitions.

For example, an investor that ponders the probability that a company will report a certain earnings growth rate over a five - or ten - year period is much more apt to ride out short - term fluctuations in the share price.

The ride - sharing service hopes to collect more road data but isn't planning passenger pick - ups yet.

«And when that stage comes, this ride share business becomes even more important.»

Some users said the ride - sharing app showed minimum prices as high as $ 65, or more than two times the regular price, but others said the minimum price quadrupled to as much as $ 100.

The automaker said young people in the U.S. rank car rides behind only books as things they are most open to sharing, with more than half of millennials willing to share rides.

GrabCar functions more closely to Uber's ride - sharing service, while GrabBike allows users to request for motorcycles in Vietnam.

Where it's not weird to sell what we have and give it to the poor, share more, not have a car and ride a bike and all these things.

Shares in Japan's scandal - ridden Snow Brand Milk Products Co soared more than 11 per cent on Tuesday after investors saw signs of a practical revival plan

Our suggestion is if you want to buy toys, find things that can grow with your kids through different stages, like Fisher Price Little People sets or even some ride - on toys, and then focus more on the interaction and teaching your children the sharing concept once your youngest hits about a year.

The ride - sharing app Uber has recently shifted its focus to the city's other boroughs, leading it to a milestone: More people are using it than the city's fabled yellow cabs.

Five years after NYC's green taxis were rolled out, the initiative is running on fumes as more drivers switch to black cars, leaving outer - borough street - hailing riders to choose between ride - sharing apps such as Uber and illegal gypsy cabs.

Despite the mutual State of the State boycott between Cuomo and state lawmakers, they will all have to work together eventually on issues like passing the budget, which is expected to have a deficit, and perhaps implementing new laws — to make college tuition free for more students, and allowing ride - sharing services like Uber and Lyft in more places in New York.

But despite the mutual State of the State boycott between Cuomo and state lawmakers, they will all have to work together eventually on issues like passing the budget, which is expected to have a deficit, and perhaps implementing new laws — to make college tuition free for more students, and allowing ride - sharing services like Uber and Lyft in more places in New York.

More than 80 Uber drivers protested a proposed six - month Suffolk ban on ride - sharing operators as a way for the county to leverage a local share of $ 24 million in revenue from the 4 percent state surcharge on ridesharing.

Ride - sharing company Uber put its lobbying efforts into high gear during the first half of 2017, spending more than $ 1.2 million to influence lawmakers, records show.

But, despite the mutual State of the State boycott between Cuomo and state lawmakers, they will all have to work together eventually on issues like passing the budget, which is expected to have a deficit, and perhaps implementing new laws - to make college tuition free for more students, and allowing ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft in more places in New York.

But, despite the mutual State of the State boycott between Cuomo and state lawmakers, they will all have to work together eventually on issues like passing the budget, which is expected to have a deficit, and perhaps implementing new laws to make college tuition free for more students, and allowing ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft in more places in New York.

Cuomo said he believes the ride - sharing services could create thousands of jobs, cut down on drunken driving and even boost tourism and attract more business and gatherings to upstate New York.

As for UKIP, their prospects could not be more different than four years ago, when they were riding high and about to win the largest share of the vote in the European elections.

During a shared ride from the airport to the city, Smits says he asked Suresh: «Wouldn't it be nice if we could get more U.S. researchers to come to Europe?»

Driverless taxis gained more attention when General Motors Co. in early January made a $ 500 million investment in the ride - sharing company Lyft to develop a network of autonomous, on - demand vehicles.

Jones says he doesn't think the news will make US rival Lyft — which offers a similar app and ride - sharing service — any more likely to enter the UK market.

To be sure, as Ratti acknowledges, the growth of ride - sharing depends on many factors, include a willingness of passengers to engage in it more often.