IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/teinso/v67y2021ics0160791x21002025.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Differentiated models in the collaborative transport economy: A mixture analysis for Blablacar and Uber

Author

Listed:
  • Quirós, Cipriano
  • Portela, Javier
  • Marín, Raquel

Abstract

The collaborative economy has become one of the fastest-growing areas since the great recession of 2008, with passenger transport activities being of particular importance. Based on on-demand ride services, in which passengers are connected with community drivers through a smartphone app, these collaborative transport activities are not all of a homogeneous nature, and need to be differentiated according to the type of service provided to understand the socioeconomic and environmental characteristics that determine their widespread use. The objective of this paper is to analyze the determinants of use of the two main online platforms for transport in Europe: Blablacar (ride-sharing) and Uber (ride-hailing), representing two different business models for shared mobility. Our contribution is an empirical analysis emphasizing the role of digital skills and employing a mixture analysis technique that permits the distinction between these two platforms models. Our results show that beyond their strong linkage to the digital environment, the determinants of using both platforms differ. In the case of Blablacar, the results show a closed user profile influenced by age, educational level, live as a couple or urban environment. However, the user profile for Uber is open and more diffuse, with a preference for female population.

Suggested Citation

  • Quirós, Cipriano & Portela, Javier & Marín, Raquel, 2021. "Differentiated models in the collaborative transport economy: A mixture analysis for Blablacar and Uber," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:67:y:2021:i:c:s0160791x21002025
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101727
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160791X21002025
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101727?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Casprini, Elena & Di Minin, Alberto & Paraboschi, Andrea, 2019. "How do companies organize nascent markets? The BlaBlaCar case in the inter-city shared mobility market," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 270-281.
    2. Young, Mischa & Farber, Steven, 2019. "The who, why, and when of Uber and other ride-hailing trips: An examination of a large sample household travel survey," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 383-392.
    3. Garín-Muñoz, Teresa & López, Rafael & Pérez-Amaral, Teodosio & Herguera, Iñigo & Valarezo, Angel, 2019. "Models for individual adoption of eCommerce, eBanking and eGovernment in Spain," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 100-111.
    4. Felipe F. Dias & Patrícia S. Lavieri & Venu M. Garikapati & Sebastian Astroza & Ram M. Pendyala & Chandra R. Bhat, 2017. "A behavioral choice model of the use of car-sharing and ride-sourcing services," Transportation, Springer, vol. 44(6), pages 1307-1323, November.
    5. Young, Mischa & Farber, Steven, 2019. "The Who, Why, and When of Uber and other Ride-hailing Trips: An Examination of a Large Sample Household Travel Survey," OSF Preprints x7ryj, Center for Open Science.
    6. Yash Babar & Gordon Burtch, 2020. "Examining the Heterogeneous Impact of Ride-Hailing Services on Public Transit Use," Information Systems Research, INFORMS, vol. 31(3), pages 820-834, September.
    7. Coll, Marie-Hélène & Vandersmissen, Marie-Hélène & Thériault, Marius, 2014. "Modeling spatio-temporal diffusion of carsharing membership in Québec City," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 22-37.
    8. Efthymiou, Dimitrios & Antoniou, Constantinos & Waddell, Paul, 2013. "Factors affecting the adoption of vehicle sharing systems by young drivers," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 29(C), pages 64-73.
    9. Watanabe, Chihiro & Naveed, Kashif & Neittaanmäki, Pekka, 2016. "Co-evolution of three mega-trends nurtures un-captured GDP – Uber’s ride-sharing revolution," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 164-185.
    10. Lopez-Carreiro, Iria & Monzon, Andres & Lopez, Elena & Lopez-Lambas, Maria Eugenia, 2020. "Urban mobility in the digital era: An exploration of travellers' expectations of MaaS mobile-technologies," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    11. Gupta, Manjul & Esmaeilzadeh, Pouyan & Uz, Irem & Tennant, Vanesa M., 2019. "The effects of national cultural values on individuals' intention to participate in peer-to-peer sharing economy," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 20-29.
    12. Vaclavik, Marcia Cristiane & Macke, Janaina & Faturi e Silva, Daniel, 2020. "‘Do not talk to strangers’: A study on trust in Brazilian ridesharing apps," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    13. Rayle, Lisa & Dai, Danielle & Chan, Nelson & Cervero, Robert & Shaheen, Susan PhD, 2016. "Just A Better Taxi? A Survey-Based Comparison of Taxis, Transit, and Ridesourcing Services in San Francisco," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt60v8r346, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    14. Sundararajan, Arun, 2016. "The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism," MIT Press Books, The MIT Press, edition 1, volume 1, number 0262034573, April.
    15. Shaheen, Susan, 2004. "U.S. Carsharing & Station Car Policy Considerations: Monitoring Growth, Trends & Overall Impacts," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt5np26388, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    16. Goldman, Todd & Gorham, Roger, 2006. "Sustainable urban transport: Four innovative directions," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 28(1), pages 261-273.
    17. Hall, Jonathan D. & Palsson, Craig & Price, Joseph, 2018. "Is Uber a substitute or complement for public transit?," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 108(C), pages 36-50.
    18. Huynh, Toan Luu Duc & Vo, An Kim Hoang & Nguyen, Thanh Hoang Ha & Nguyen, Vy Bao Le & Ho, Nhung Ngoc Hong & Do, Nguyen Binh, 2020. "What makes us use the shared mobility model? Evidence from Vietnam," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 1-13.
    19. Martin, Elliot W & Shaheen, Susan A, 2011. "Greenhouse Gas Emission Impacts of Carsharing in North America," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt6wr90040, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    20. Watanabe, Chihiro & Naveed, Kashif & Neittaanmäki, Pekka & Fox, Brenda, 2017. "Consolidated challenge to social demand for resilient platforms - Lessons from Uber's global expansion," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 33-53.
    21. Rayle, Lisa & Dai, Danielle & Chan, Nelson & Cervero, Robert & Shaheen, Susan, 2016. "Just a better taxi? A survey-based comparison of taxis, transit, and ridesourcing services in San Francisco," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 168-178.
    22. Prieto, Marc & Baltas, George & Stan, Valentina, 2017. "Car sharing adoption intention in urban areas: What are the key sociodemographic drivers?," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 218-227.
    23. Cardoso, Lauren F. & Sorenson, Susan B. & Webb, Olivia & Landers, Sara, 2019. "Recent and emerging technologies: Implications for women's safety," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).
    24. Shaheen, Susan A & Schwartz, Andrew & Wipyewski, Kamill, 2004. "Policy Considerations for Carsharing and Station Cars: Monitoring Growth, Trends, and Overall Impacts," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt0qp464f0, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    25. Yu Wang & Shanyong Wang & Jing Wang & Jiuchang Wei & Chenglin Wang, 2020. "An empirical study of consumers’ intention to use ride-sharing services: using an extended technology acceptance model," Transportation, Springer, vol. 47(1), pages 397-415, February.
    26. Jun Guan Neoh & Maxwell Chipulu & Alasdair Marshall, 2017. "What encourages people to carpool? An evaluation of factors with meta-analysis," Transportation, Springer, vol. 44(2), pages 423-447, March.
    27. Benoit, Sabine & Baker, Thomas L. & Bolton, Ruth N. & Gruber, Thorsten & Kandampully, Jay, 2017. "A triadic framework for collaborative consumption (CC): Motives, activities and resources & capabilities of actors," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 219-227.
    28. Lars E. Olsson & Raphaela Maier & Margareta Friman, 2019. "Why Do They Ride with Others? Meta-Analysis of Factors Influencing Travelers to Carpool," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-16, April.
    29. Wells, Peter & Wang, Xiaobei & Wang, Liqiao & Liu, Haokun & Orsato, Renato, 2020. "More friends than foes? The impact of automobility-as-a-service on the incumbent automotive industry," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 154(C).
    30. Lammi, Minna & Pantzar, Mika, 2019. "The data economy: How technological change has altered the role of the citizen-consumer," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 59(C).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Katarzyna Turoń, 2022. "Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis during Selection of Vehicles for Car-Sharing Services—Regular Users’ Expectations," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(19), pages 1-15, October.
    2. Prasetyo, Eko Heru, 2024. "Digital platforms’ strategies in Indonesia: Navigating between technology and informal economy," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
    3. Saravanan Periyasami & Aravin Prince Periyasamy, 2022. "Metaverse as Future Promising Platform Business Model: Case Study on Fashion Value Chain," Businesses, MDPI, vol. 2(4), pages 1-19, November.
    4. Saravanan Periyasami & Aravin Prince Periyasamy, 2022. "Metaverse as Future Promising Platform Business Model: Case Study on Fashion Value Chain," Businesses, MDPI, vol. 2(4), pages 1-21, November.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Zou, Zhenpeng & Cirillo, Cinzia, 2021. "Does ridesourcing impact driving decisions: A survey weighted regression analysis," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 1-12.
    2. Zu, Jinyan & Kong, Hui & Xu, Yang & Zhang, Xiaohu, 2024. "Carsharing in China: Impact of system and urban factors on usage and efficiency," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 117(C).
    3. Tirachini, Alejandro & del Río, Mariana, 2019. "Ride-hailing in Santiago de Chile: Users’ characterisation and effects on travel behaviour," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 46-57.
    4. Nair, Gopindra S. & Bhat, Chandra R. & Batur, Irfan & Pendyala, Ram M. & Lam, William H.K., 2020. "A model of deadheading trips and pick-up locations for ride-hailing service vehicles," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 289-308.
    5. Aguilera-García, Álvaro & Gomez, Juan & Velázquez, Guillermo & Vassallo, Jose Manuel, 2022. "Ridesourcing vs. traditional taxi services: Understanding users’ choices and preferences in Spain," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 155(C), pages 161-178.
    6. Xiaowei Chen & Hongyu Zheng & Ze Wang & Xiqun Chen, 2021. "Exploring impacts of on-demand ridesplitting on mobility via real-world ridesourcing data and questionnaires," Transportation, Springer, vol. 48(4), pages 1541-1561, August.
    7. Yoon-Young Chun & Mitsutaka Matsumoto & Kiyotaka Tahara & Kenichiro Chinen & Hideki Endo, 2019. "Exploring Factors Affecting Car Sharing Use Intention in the Southeast-Asia Region: A Case Study in Java, Indonesia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-26, September.
    8. Shichao Sun & Yuanqian Liu & Yukun Yao & Zhengyu Duan & Xiaokun Wang, 2021. "The Determinants to Promote College Students’ Use of Car-Sharing: An Empirical Study at Dalian Maritime University, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(12), pages 1-12, June.
    9. Young, Mischa & Allen, Jeff & Farber, Steven, 2020. "Measuring when Uber behaves as a substitute or supplement to transit: An examination of travel-time differences in Toronto," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
    10. Zgheib, Najib & Abou-Zeid, Maya & Kaysi, Isam, 2020. "Modeling demand for ridesourcing as feeder for high capacity mass transit systems with an application to the planned Beirut BRT," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 70-91.
    11. Vinayak, Pragun & Dias, Felipe F. & Astroza, Sebastian & Bhat, Chandra R. & Pendyala, Ram M. & Garikapati, Venu M., 2018. "Accounting for multi-dimensional dependencies among decision-makers within a generalized model framework: An application to understanding shared mobility service usage levels," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 129-137.
    12. Ilahi, Anugrah & Belgiawan, Prawira F. & Balac, Milos & Axhausen, Kay W., 2021. "Understanding travel and mode choice with emerging modes; a pooled SP and RP model in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 150(C), pages 398-422.
    13. Cen Zhang & Jan-Dirk Schmöcker & Martin Trépanier, 2022. "Latent stage model for carsharing usage frequency estimation with Montréal case study," Transportation, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 185-211, February.
    14. Meredith-Karam, Patrick & Kong, Hui & Wang, Shenhao & Zhao, Jinhua, 2021. "The relationship between ridehailing and public transit in Chicago: A comparison before and after COVID-19," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
    15. Brown, Anne, 2022. "Not all fees are created equal: Equity implications of ride-hail fee structures and revenues," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 1-10.
    16. He, Zhengbing, 2021. "Portraying ride-hailing mobility using multi-day trip order data: A case study of Beijing, China," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 152-169.
    17. Lee, Yongsung & Lee, Bumsoo, 2022. "What’s eating public transit in the United States? Reasons for declining transit ridership in the 2010s," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 157(C), pages 126-143.
    18. Craig Standing & Ferry Jie & Thi Le & Susan Standing & Sharon Biermann, 2021. "Analysis of the Use and Perception of Shared Mobility: A Case Study in Western Australia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-14, August.
    19. Xiong, Ziyue & Jian Li, & Wu, Hangbin, 2021. "Understanding operation patterns of urban online ride-hailing services: A case study of Xiamen," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 100-118.
    20. Alejandro Tirachini, 2020. "Ride-hailing, travel behaviour and sustainable mobility: an international review," Transportation, Springer, vol. 47(4), pages 2011-2047, August.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:teinso:v:67:y:2021:i:c:s0160791x21002025. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/technology-in-society .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.