{"id":4006,"date":"2016-12-27T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2016-12-27T09:25:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:25:40","slug":"pactrans-pi-and-uw-assistant-professor-don-mackenzie-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/pactrans-pi-and-uw-assistant-professor-don-mackenzie-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"PacTrans PI and UW Assistant Professor, Don MacKenzie, in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DonsImage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4007\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DonsImage.jpg\" alt=\"donsimage\" width=\"505\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DonsImage.jpg 6120w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DonsImage-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DonsImage-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DonsImage-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DonsImage-97x45.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past October, PacTrans PI and UW Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering, Don MacKenzie, made headlines for a study he conducted with colleagues from Stanford and MIT. <!--more-->This used black and white university students to study the behavior of drivers from ride sourcing companies such as Uber and Lyft.<\/p>\n<p>In all they took nearly 1,500 rides and controlled routes. Several key takeaways included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Seattle, for Uber, African-American riders waited 30% longer to be picked up than white riders.<\/li>\n<li>Cancelation rates were twice as high from customers with \u201cblack-sounding\u201d names than for customers with \u201cwhite-sounding\u201d names<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This research is significant because, \u201cTechnology was supposed to be a tool that mitigated discrimination because it\u2019s based on algorithms rather than subjective expectations. But we see that doesn\u2019t always happen,\u201d said Darrick Hamilton, a professor of economics and urban policy at The New School in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>PacTrans is excited to support future work like this, as the recently appointed FAST Act Region 10 University Transportation Center, which will focus on the Mobility of People and Goods. Congratulations Don!<\/p>\n<p>For more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/news\/2016\/10\/31\/uber-lyft-black-african-american-women-discrimination-wait-times-longer-rides\/92790684\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past October, PacTrans PI and UW Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering, Don MacKenzie, made headlines for a study he conducted with colleagues from Stanford and MIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}