Cab sharing could be exactly this great: MIT’s Senseable City Lab | BetaBoston

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"The urban living experts at MIT’s Senseable City Lab have mathematically modeled the benefits of sharing a cab using the 150 million trips by more than 13,000 New York City cabs in 2011. 

Almost 95 percent of those rides could be shared, the researchers find. Also, those shared rides could have cut the time on the road by 40 percent, they report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week. The data comes from the HubCab data source of New York City cab pickups and drop-offs hosted by the lab."

Cab sharing could be exactly this great: MIT’s Senseable City Lab | BetaBoston