Published:
October 27, 2017
Texas and Florida residents who receive disaster-recovery checks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and private insurance companies in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma should consider web-enabled carpooling and point-to-point transportation, rather than replacing their lost cars, write Todd Davidson and Prof. Michael Webber in a new op-ed. If enough people used “mass-customized transit” services offered by transportation network companies, on-demand carpooling could employ tens of thousands of drivers and boost economic recovery in flood-stricken areas. For more, read their entire op-ed in Bloomberg View.