Taxing Uber q

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Agrawal, David R.; Zhao, Weihua
• 署名单位: University of Kentucky
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2023.104862
• 发表日期: 2023
• 关键词: taxation; Public transit; traffic congestion; Optimal tolls

摘要

Ride-hailing applications create new challenges for governments providing transit services, but also create new opportunities to raise tax revenue. To shed light on the effect of taxing or subsidizing ride-hailing services, we extend a pseudo-monocentric city model to include multiple endogenously chosen transportation modes, including ride-hailing applications and endogenous car ownership. We show that most tax and spending programs that cities have currently adopted mildly increase public transit usage. However, the model predicts more significant increases in public transit ridership when ride-hailing applications are subsidized as a last-mile provider. Our model indicates that whether ride-hailing services and public transit are substitutes or complements is a policy choice.(c) 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.