transport as a service

Platform Scale: How an Emerging Business Model Helps Startups Build Large Empires With Minimum Investment

by Sangeet Paul Choudary  · 14 Sep 2015  · 302pp  · 73,581 words

exchanges: 1.Transfer of information on cab availability from driver (producer) to traveler (consumer) in response to the transfer of a request; 2.Transfer of transportation-as-a-service from driver (producer) to traveler (consumer); 3.Transfer of money from traveler (consumer) to driver (producer). It is important to note that, even though the

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh  · 14 Apr 2018  · 286pp  · 87,401 words

the $10 billion market was a serious underestimate, as the ease of use and lower cost of Uber and its competitors expanded the market for transportation-as-a-service. As Aaron Levie, the founder of the online file storage company Box noted in a tweet in 2014, “Sizing the market for a disruptor based

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

by Kevin Kelly  · 6 Jun 2016  · 371pp  · 108,317 words

frontier is that there are so many more ways to be a service than to be a product. The number of different ways to recast transportation as a service is almost unlimited. Uber is merely one variation. There are dozens more already established, and many more possible. The general approach for entrepreneurs is to

Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It

by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert  · 4 Jun 2018  · 244pp  · 66,977 words

routes when the weather is nice. As The Economist notes, “Young urbanites, who have become accustomed to usership instead of ownership, find the notion of transport as a service both natural and appealing. Meanwhile the cost of running a car in a city goes ever upwards. Parking gets harder. Many city-dwellers are questioning

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Francisco 2017 Opening Keynote,” Zuora Subscribed conference presentation, June 5, 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdDA7sRgMSQ. Americans aged 20–24 with a driving licence “Transport as a Service: It Starts with a Single App,” The Economist, September 29, 2016, www.economist.com/news/international/21707952-combining-old-and-new-ways-getting-around-will

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie  · 6 May 2019  · 328pp  · 84,682 words

companies have announced that their long-term strategy is to move away from being a pure platform, matching riders with drivers, toward a model of “transportation as a service,” in which they own or lease all their own vehicles, including both automobiles and bicycles or scooters. Tech companies like Google and most of the

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

by Stuart Russell  · 7 Oct 2019  · 416pp  · 112,268 words

project costing vast sums of money, requiring years of planning, and carrying a high risk of death. Now we are used to the idea of transportation as a service (TaaS): if you need to be in Melbourne early next week, it just requires a few taps on your phone and a relatively minuscule amount