Case Study: AVs + Rideshare = RAPID, Arlington, TX
Case Study
2021
Description
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.
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- access
- accessibility
- autonomous vehicles
- AVs
- community engagement
- engagement
- Coronavirus
- COVID
- COVID-19
- data
- data standardization
- data sharing
- demand response
- demand responsive
- equity
- evaluation
- performance
- performance metrics
- fare
- fares
- fees
- revenues
- first mile
- last mile
- first/last mile
- fleet management
- marketing
- payment integration
- pilot projects
- pilots
- point-to-point
- private partnerships
- procurement
- procurements
- public-private partnerships
- wheelchair accessible vehicles
- WAV
- WAVs
- microtransit
- flexible transit
- paratransit
- mobile applications
- mobile apps
- integration
- ridesourcing
- Ridesplitting
- TNC
- TNCs
- transportation network companies
TRT Terms:
- TRT terms :
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- Accessibility
- Autonomous vehicles
- Coordination
- COVID-19
- Data sharing
- Demand responsive transportation
- Equity (finance)
- Evaluation
- Free fares
- Fare collection
- Revenues
- Fleet management
- Marketing
- Pilot studies
- Mobility applications
- Procurement
- Automobiles for the physically disabled
- Paratransit vehicles
- Ridesourcing
TA Center:
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- SUMC