MIT study suggests cities should coordinate ride-hailing

A study by researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed the extent to which ride-hailing competition clogs city streets.

Working in collaboration with the Institute for Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council of Italy, the paper suggests that cities should use a unified single platform to achieve an optimally sized ride-hailing market.

“What this shows is that by not coordinating ride-hailing companies, we are creating a huge amount of additional traffic,” said Carlo Ratti, a Professor in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), and co-author of the report.

“If cities were to use a platform to coordinate ride-hailing, we could reduce overall congestion and traffic in cities all over the world.”