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Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy

by Jeremias Prassl · 7 May 2018 · 491pp · 77,650 words

, free-market think tank R Street’s map of state-level legisla- tion listed only five US states that had not enacted some form of transport network company (TNC) regulation.60 At first glance, these measures set out a balanced approach, permitting on-demand platforms to operate and subjecting them to basic standards

The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition

by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek · 17 Aug 2015 · 257pp · 64,285 words

in many cities. Lyft is in many ways simply an app with a back-end (rather, 'cloud-based') dispatch service. They claim to be a "transport network company whose mobile-phone application facilitates peer-to-peer ridesharing by enabling passengers who need a ride to request one from drivers who have a car

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words

codified ride-hailing services as separate from taxis. Naturally, this happened first in California. The state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) created the classification of “Transportation Network Company” in 2013 to cover ride-hailing companies, which had the effect of taking regulatory authority away from San Francisco and other cities in the state

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words

What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy

by Tom Slee · 18 Nov 2015 · 265pp · 69,310 words

/after-our-uber-expos-their-pr-team-tried-to-dupe-us-5177453. Ferguson, Jordan. “Recent Transportation Network Company Ordinances.” Best Best and Krieger LLP, October 30, 2014. http://www.bbknowledge.com/california-public-utilities-commission-cpuc/recent-transportation-network-company-ordinances-in-austin-houston-and-washington-d-c-display-variety-of-regulatory-approaches/. Fernholtz, Tim. “Is

Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

by Alex Rosenblat · 22 Oct 2018 · 343pp · 91,080 words

.net/2017/8/31/16227670/uber-lyft-market-share-deleteuber-decline-users. 4. San Francisco County Transportation Authority, “TNCs Today: A Profile of San Francisco Transportation Network Company Activity,” June 2017, www.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/content/Planning/TNCs/TNCs_Today_112917.pdf. 5. Jessica, “New Survey: Drivers Choose Uber for Its

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

by Arun Sundararajan · 12 May 2016 · 375pp · 88,306 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly · 9 Oct 2017 · 561pp · 157,589 words

Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

by Steven Higashide · 9 Oct 2019 · 195pp · 52,701 words

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words

the drivers’ accounts. The given reason? Low ratings from passengers. This insouciance is built into Uber, which calls itself a software company, or alternatively, a transportation network company, rather than a taxi company. (Sidecar identifies as a peer-to-peer ride-sharing service.) Uber is also known for flouting local laws by setting