Unlike Uber, Top Cab received "no income" from any dispatches it provided, its members were not required to accept any dispatch assigned, and the dispatches accepted constituted only "9.95% of all fares driven by Top Cab members in 2010". Id. at *10-11 *10-11
According to the authors, "the observed influence of these two factors is consistent with both the literature and intuition: frequent service attracts passengers, and high fares drive them away" [46].
After all, expectations in the off-season for how a team will fare drives season ticket sales and with it, the feeling a team may stink or be a contender can set the gate long before winter's cold grasp has given way to Spring Training and the start of the regular season.
Instead, high robotaxi fares are driven largely by the vehicle's utilization rate – how much of these vehicles' time is spent shuttling passengers around.
Samsung's smartphone division is also likely to be faring well, driven by the company's premium Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus devices as well as the new Galaxy Note 8, which launched in mid-September.
For about $5, half the usual fare, Kamali drives the men — and they are always young unmarried men — to a depot in the poor southeastern corner of Tehran, where buses leave for the Afghan border.
So we wind up cutting back on bus operations and then raising fares, which drives the riders away".
But Philadelphia is also being seen as a watershed by the network carriers, who themselves once used targeted low fares to drive upstarts from major markets.
"Doubling PATH fares will drive more people to the roads," said Representative Robert Menendez, whose district along the New Jersey waterfront in Hudson County includes several communities that have shown a growing reliance on PATH.
IAG argues that fares could be driven up by escalating expenses, but that breaking up Heathrow could lower this risk.
