• February 08, 2021

    App-Based Carpooling Company Scoop Publishes PacTrans-Funded Work on Effectiveness of Carpool Incentive Fund

    Source: Building Partnership Between Transit Agency and Shared Mobility Company: Incentivizing App-Based Carpooling in the Seattle Region

    Late last year, Scoop, an app-based carpooling company, published some PacTrans-funded work that was presented at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting. The presentation was titled, Building Partnership Between Transit Agency and Shared Mobility Company: Incentivizing App-Based Carpooling in the Seattle Region , and was based on a 2018 PacTrans-funded a research project titled, Examining the Effects of King County Metro Carpool Incentive Fund, lead by Qing Shen, a professor of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington.

    In this work, Dr. Shen, along with his PhD student Yiyuan Wang, investigated data from over 200,000 Scoop trips and paired this data with survey responses from commuters to measure the King County Metro’s Carpooling Incentive Fund’s impact. The main highlights in their analysis indicate that Scoop usage:

    1. Was highly adopted by eligible commuters
    2. Significantly decreased SOV trips, and
    3. Reduced commuter VMT during the pilot period

    “Specifically, the number of Scoop trips rose from 24,268 in the first month to 53,239 in the fifth month, an average growth of 17% month-over-month.”

    To find out more about the PacTrans-funded project, see its project profile page on the PacTrans website here. To see more from Scoop, see their article here.