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The Case for the Cab (1976)
- Oatseller 11y agoDecades before Lyft and Uber, a scholar of transportation argued that the most efficient public transport system might be an army of less- regulated taxis. The scholar is "Martin Wohl, a professor of transportation system planning at Carnegie Mellon University", he died in 2009, the year Uber was founded [0] He co-authored a book "The Urban Transportation Problem" in 1965 [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Wohl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Wohl [1] https://books.google.com/books/about/The_urban_transportation_problem.html?id=4ye3AAAAIAAJ https://books.google.com/books/about/The_urban_transportatio...
- neonscribe 11y agoA taxi medallion, the artificially scarce license to operate in New York, cost $35,000 in 1976. In 2014 a medallion sold for $1.3m. In 2015 a medallion sold for $900,000, presumably as a result of Uber and Lyft.