How many ride-share trips occur in the US daily?

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How many ride-share trips occur in the US daily?

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H P · Answer 1 · 2020-02-06T10:52:51+0000

Clarification:

Are we taking about the ride share trip that are paid and on the aggregator platforms? Or just about any ride share/car pool? Answer: Only paid one on the platforms

Can I assume that we are looking to get this information for a weekday? Answer: Yes

Ride share trips daily = Total ride share trips in tier 1 cities + Total ride share in the rest of the country

Total US population: 400 MM

Assuming that is equally split between groups of 1-10, 11-20 etc.

Now the people who use such apps are supposed to be 18+, so we are left with

Age bracket	Population	Eligible to sign up on the app	% signed up	Signed up on the app
0-10 years	50 MM	0	na
11-20 years	50 MM	10 MM	80%	8 MM
21-30 years	50 MM	50 MM	60%	30 MM
31-40 years	50 MM	50 MM	50%	25 MM
41-50 years	50 MM	50 MM	40%	20 MM
51-60 years	50 MM	50 MM	20%	10 MM
61-70 years	50 MM	50 MM	10%	5 MM
71-80 years	50 MM	50 MM	0%	0
			Total:	98 MM ~ 100 MM

Of the 100 MM users who are on the app, assume that 30% are from tier 1/big cities.

Since the office goers in the age of 21-40 are frequent users of the cabs in bigger cities, I have assigned the % of the cab users based on their demographics and where they live

Below are the calculations for tier 1 cities vs the rest of the country

Age bracket	Tier 1 split @ 30%	People using Cab ride on a given day Tier 1	People using shared ride/pool option Tier 1
0-10 years
11-20 years	2.4 MM	@20% = 0.48 MM	@70% ~ 0.35 MM
21-30 years	9 MM	@50% = 4.5 MM	@50% ~ 2.25MM
31-40 years	7.5 MM	@40% = 3 MM	@40% ~ 1.2 MM
41-50 years	6 MM	@30% = 1.8 MM	@20% ~ 0.36 MM
51-60 years	3 MM	@10% = 0.3 MM	@10% ~ 0.03 MM
61-70 years	1.5 MM	@5% = 0.075 MM	0
71-80 years
Total	30 MM	~ 10 MM	~ 4 MM

Due to number of people going in the same direction being lesser for smaller cities/town, the shared ride may not be available or a popular option

Age bracket	Tier 2 split @ 70%	People using Cab ride on a given day Tier 2	People using shared ride/pool option Tier 2
0-10 years
11-20 years	5.6 MM	@10% =0.56MM	@30% ~ 0.17 MM
21-30 years	21 MM	@25% = 5.25 MM	@30% ~ 2.25 MM
31-40 years	17.5 MM	@20% = 3.5 MM	@30% ~ 1.05 MM
41-50 years	14 MM	@15% = 2.1 MM	@20% ~ 0.42 MM
51-60 years	7 MM	@5% = 0.35 MM	@0 = 0
61-70 years	3.5 MM	@0% = 0
71-80 years
Total	70 Mm	~12 MM	~ 4 MM

So including Tier 1 city shared rides and rest of the US shared rides, we arrive at 8 MM shared rides daily

That seems like a reasonable number, considering 2 people on an average taking a shared ride, so a total of 16 MM people in the US taking cab/taxi service everyday