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Uber problem en · PROPN

Etymology

Named after the American company Uber.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:urban studies) In urban law and planning, the challenges facing municipalities when regulating major multinational transport network companies (TNCs).
    • 2018, Pedro C B de Paula and Rafael A F Zanatta, The Uber problem in São Paulo: challenges to experimental urban governance, 5th International & Comparative Urban Law Conference By focusing on the role of CMUV, a multi-departmental institution focused on the economic use of public goods in the City of São Paulo, we show that regulators moved beyond the Uber problem itself and institutionalized a complex system to deal with tech firms and issues of urban governance, mixing elements of economic law and urban mobility.
    • Rather than examining why Uber is so popular to the detriment of the taxi service industry old guard, these traditional personal transport service providers have looked to government and legal intervention to solve the Uber problem. 2016, Richard N. Aufmann, Joanne Lockwood, Richard D. Nation, Mathematical Excursions, page 101:

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