Ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft are meant to provide a more convenient and faster means of transportation, but a new study finds they may actually be causing more congestion.
Ride-sharing apps are worsening traffic congestion, study says
The technology behind rideshare apps provides on-demand rides by pairing a driver with a passenger and taking them exactly where they want to go. But instead of solving America’s transportation problems, the study shows how Uber and Lyft have only made them more complicated. Experts say the study should make us rethink how we get from point A to point B.
“As the research suggests, the task of finding ideal forms of shared mobility to achieve the goal of sustainable urban transportation will be even more challenging in the post-pandemic era,” Alex Miller, vice president of marketing at Uphail, wrote in an email to Lifewire.
The study, titled “Impact of Transportation Networks on Urban Mobility,” looks at traffic congestion data in U.S. cities where Uber and Lyft were available.
