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Can We Start Sharing Our Rides Again? The Post-Pandemic Ride-Pooling Market

Transport and Telecommunication Journal
Volume 26 (2025): Issue 2 (April 2025)
By: Olha Shulika and  Rafal Kucharski  
Open Access
|Apr 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ttj-2025-0016 | Journal eISSN: 1407-6179 | Journal ISSN: 1407-6160
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Language: English
Page range: 194 - 207
Published on: Apr 17, 2025
Published by: Transport and Telecommunication Institute
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Keywords:
Ride-pooling,
COVID-19,
ridesharing,
ride-sourcing,
transportation network company
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