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Are TNCs destroying the taxi industry?
­ No; the advent of TNCs is forcing the taxi industry to get better.
­ The arrival of TNCs is forcing a long overdue conversation about which taxi regulations
are truly necessary and which are simply hurting the industry. We saw this in Seattle
and we see it again in San Francisco where increased competition from TNCs has
prompted the SFMTA to abolish unnecessary and outdated fees.
­ Competition from TNCs is also pushing taxi companies themselves to modernize. For
example, only once taxis faced healthy competition from TNCs did they start to
incorporate hailing apps, which are now standard across taxi fleets from San Francisco
to New York.
­ Evidence from New York suggests that taxi fleets that adopted hailing apps have seen
their business hold steady or grow, in stark contrast to those that failed to adapt to this
new technology.
If there are fewer taxis on the road and more TNC cars, won’t poor and peripheral areas suffer?
­ No; our data shows that Uber serves all neighborhoods of a city well. Taxis quite simply
do not serve any neighborhood nearly as well, and the difference is largest in traditionally
disadvantaged neighborhoods. This trend is only going to continue: at the start of this
year, 64% of the urban population owned a smartphone ­ a number that’s growing at the
rate of 10% each year and most rapidly among households with an annual income of
less than $30,000.