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Peer to peer ridesharing

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Peer-to-peer ridesharing area of activity can be divided along the spectrum from commercial, for-fee transportation network companies (TNC) to for-profit ridesharing services to informal nonprofit peer-to-peer carpooling arrangements. The term transportation network company comes from a 2013 California Public Utilities Commission ruling that decided to make the TNC revenue model legal.

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Essentially all modern peer-to-peer ridesharing rely on web application and mobile app technology so area is new.

List of transportation network companies

  • Lyft,
  • Uber X
  • Sidecar
  • Wingz
  • Summon
  • Taxify
  • Haxi
  • Didi Chuxing.

    • See also

  • Hitchhiking and slugging aka. casual carpooling
  • Peer-to-peer economy
  • Traditional carsharing allows consumer to access automobiles for self-driven journeys and can be provided by a forprofit corporation, a nonprofit corporation or a cooperative.
  • Peer-to-peer carsharing is a lately developed variation where the car owner makes a little money and wide areas can be brought the service due to the crowdsourcing nature the individual car hours / car days.

    • References

    Peer-to-peer ridesharing Wikipedia
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