Case Study: AVs + Rideshare = RAPID, Arlington, TX

What do you get when you mix autonomous vehicles (AV) with mobility on-demand (MOD)? RAPID! After piloting two other AV projects and expanding a rideshare program, the City of Arlington developed RAPID, also known as the Rideshare, Automation, and Payment Integration Demonstration, in Spring 2021. This AV program is a first-/last-mile mobility option for people inside a 1 square mile area that includes Arlington’s downtown core and the campus at the University of Texas at Arlington. Using an app, Via, customers can request low-cost or fare-free shared AV rides as part of the city’s broader MOD network. [NEW PARAGRAPH] After securing a Federal Transit Administration Integrated Mobility Innovation grant and seeing the successes of its other mobility initiatives, City of Arlington staff leveraged their relationships with new and existing partners to design a program well-tailored to their needs as a city in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. This case study explores how RAPID developed and how it serves people in Arlington.

Source: https://learn.sharedusemobilitycenter.org/casestudy/avs-rideshare-rapid-arlington-tx/

TA Centers: SUMC

Terms: Accessibility, Automobiles for the physically disabled, Autonomous vehicles, Coordination, COVID-19, Data sharing, Demand responsive transportation, Equity (finance), Evaluation, Fare collection, Fleet management, Free fares, Marketing, Mobility applications, Paratransit vehicles, Pilot studies, Procurement, Revenues, Ridesourcing

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