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Incentive Regulation of Transportation Network Companies

项目名称：	Incentive Regulation of Transportation Network Companies
摘要：	Transportation network companies (TNC's), which include taxis and ridesharing companies, are characterized by economies of density. Double a company's vehicle and customer density and expected waiting time falls. In the past, these economies of density were offset by diseconomies of scale in dispatching, so that industry concentration was modest. Computerization has sharply reduced diseconomies of scale in dispatching and, in the absence of regulation, will lead to increased industry concentration and monopoly power. Research under this seed grant will explore how TNC's should be regulated so as to efficiently balance the reduction in cost from increased industry concentration against the increased exercise of monopoly power. It will apply the theory of incentive regulation, in which "the principal" chooses a set of regulations that provide efficient incentives for "the agent", taking into account that the agent is better informed than the principal. At one level of the incentive scheme, the regulator is the principal and the companies the agents; at another level, the company is the principal and the drivers the agents. The research will provide the cornerstone for a larger, collaborative research grant application to the National Science Foundation on "Integrating Transportation Network Companies into Urban Transportation Systems."
状态：	Active
资金：	$35,000
资助组织：	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
管理组织：	University of California, Riverside
项目负责人：	Iacobucci, Lauren
执行机构：	University of California, Riverside
主要研究人员：	Arnott, Richard
开始时间：	20180701
预计完成日期：	20200930
实际结束时间：	0