Uber and municipal government: Super friends?

Can cities work with Uber to make transportation better for everyone?

An Uber pickup point.
(Image credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

American cities have an Uber dilemma. And a new study provides a few possible insights into solving it.

The research was a joint project under an umbrella of different groups, including the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, the National Cooperative Rail Research Program, and the Transit Cooperative Research Program, many of which rely on various government research grants. It analyzed ride-sharing data and a variety of surveys from transit and ride-sharing users. Briefly, here's what it found:

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.