Ride-hailing services such as Lyft and Uber can complement rides offered by family, friends, paid providers, and public transit. To learn why older adults might wish to use ride-hail, we conducted an online survey of 2,917 California respondents age 55 and older. Participants were asked whether they would value four features hypothesized to be benefits of ride-hailing. We specified binary logit models and used market segmentation to investigate whether there were location-based differences in the use of ride-hailing. Our analysis showed that women, city dwellers, persons with disabilities, and those who rely on others for rides were more open to ride-hailing. Women in suburbs or small town/rural settings were more likely to ride-hail than their male counterparts for reasons of independence, fear of being lost while driving, or getting help with carrying bags. Urban women, in contrast, were less likely than their male counterparts to ride-hail for these reasons. High-income individuals in suburbs or small town/rural locations were more likely to ride-hail than low-income respondents, while high-income urban residents were less likely to ride-hail. Adoption of ride-hailing services and the reasons for doing so showed strong variability by location even among respondents with similar socio-demographic attributes.

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不同地点类型的加州老年人在使用网约车方面的差异

Lyft 和 Uber 等叫车服务可以补充家人、朋友、付费提供商和公共交通提供的乘车服务。为了了解为什么老年人可能希望使用网约车服务，我们对 2,917 名 55 岁及以上的加州受访者进行了在线调查。参与者被问及他们是否会重视被假设为网约车好处的四个特征。我们指定了二元 logit 模型，并使用市场细分来调查网约车的使用是否存在基于位置的差异。我们的分析表明，女性、城市居民、残疾人和依赖他人乘车的人对网约车更持开放态度。出于独立、害怕在开车时迷路、或在提包方面寻求帮助。相比之下，由于这些原因，城市女性比男性同行更不可能打车。郊区或小镇/农村地区的高收入个人比低收入受访者更有可能乘坐冰雹，而高收入城市居民则不太可能乘坐冰雹。即使在具有相似社会人口特征的受访者中，网约车服务的采用及其原因也显示出不同地点的巨大差异。