UBER IN EXURBIA: Peripheral Platformization, Post-Suburbanization and the Public–Private Ridehail Partnership in the Toronto City Region

IF 2.7 2区 经济学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Fabian Namberger
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After their widespread legalization, ridehailing companies Uber and Lyft soon embarked on a new stage of their respective business models: the initiation of a wave of strategic partnerships with local and regional transit agencies across the North American continent. This article accounts for this trend by putting forward the concept of the public–private ridehail partnership (PPRP). It aims to render visible the PPRP as a variously contradictory attempt to splice Uber and Lyft's platform-based business models with the existing social and physical realities of North American post-suburban space. While conceived as a strategic response to pressing sub- and exurban problems such as low physical densities, widespread car centrism and extensive transit undersupply, the PPRP, as I argue, is neither able to adequately address these dilemmas nor to ultimately resolve them. Rather, the PPRP latches onto old—and sets in motion new—powerful dynamics of heightened uneven development and continued urban entrepreneurialism. Each of these two dynamics is explored through empirical analyses of two recent PPRPs in the Toronto city region: the Lyft–Metrolinx pilot carried out between July and December 2019; and Uber's ongoing partnership with the town of Innisfil, located about 80 km north of downtown Toronto.

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uber in exurbia:多伦多市区的外围平台化、后郊区化和公私合营的 Ridehail 伙伴关系
优步(Uber)和莱夫特(Lyft)这两家打车公司在广泛合法化之后,很快就开始了各自商业模式的新阶段:在北美大陆掀起了一股与地方和区域交通机构建立战略合作伙伴关系的浪潮。本文通过提出公私打车合作(PPRP)的概念来阐述这一趋势。文章旨在说明,公私打车伙伴关系是将 Uber 和 Lyft 基于平台的商业模式与北美后城郊空间现有的社会和物质现实相融合的一种尝试,这种尝试存在各种矛盾。正如我所认为的那样,PPRP 虽然被认为是对诸如低物理密度、普遍的汽车中心主义和广泛的交通供应不足等迫切的城郊问题的战略回应,但它既不能充分应对这些困境,也不能最终解决这些问题。相反,泛珠三角区域合作计划抓住了发展不平衡加剧和城市创业精神持续的旧动力,并启动了新动力。本文通过对多伦多市区内最近两个公共公共交通项目的实证分析,探讨了这两种动力中的每一种:2019 年 7 月至 12 月间开展的 Lyft-Metrolinx 试点项目;以及 Uber 与位于多伦多市中心以北约 80 公里处的 Innisfil 镇正在进行的合作项目。
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期刊介绍: A groundbreaking forum for intellectual debate, IJURR is at the forefront of urban and regional research. With a cutting edge approach to linking theoretical development and empirical research, and a consistent demand for quality, IJURR encompasses key material from an unparalleled range of critical, comparative and geographic perspectives. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach to the field, IJURR is essential reading for social scientists with a concern for the complex, changing roles and futures of cities and regions.
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