Opportunities for Collaboration between Uber NYC & Mayor Bill

de Blasios Administration
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Supporting Vision Zero
Uber strongly supports Mayor Bill de Blasios innovative Vision Zero initiative. As an
organization that has thousands of driver partners on New York City roads, we want to
do our part to enhance this effort and utilize our data and engineering resources in
creative ways that can help the City continue to make progress on achieving Vision
Zero.
In support of Vision Zero, Uber will:
Share information about new pockets of high traffic incident areas that meet
certain thresholds;
Commit to strict enforcement of chronic speeders by setting a framework where
driver partners found to be regularly speeding are first reprimanded, then
suspended twice, then deactivated;
Partner with City Hall to organize quarterly roundtables between driver partners
and City traffic officials around enforcement guidelines, hosted at Uber HQ and
City Hall;
Explore creating an in-app feature or quarterly email survey to allow riders and
driver partners to offer feedback on danger zones and opportunities for safety
enhancements;
Place a PSA from the Mayor on our mandatory driver safety video;
Offer benefits for driver partners that meet certain safety thresholds; and
Produce and disseminate rider and driver messaging about how best to safely
make a connection (dont stand in the street, place the pin in the right directional
location, etc.).
Creating Up to 10,000-15,000 New Jobs in New York City
While many Uber driver partners come from the existing for-hire vehicle industry,
thousands more are new entrants to this fourth largest economic market in New York
City. We are committed to onboarding more driver partners from outside of the existing
for-hire vehicle industry, thus ensuring that jobs created by Uber are increasingly net
new jobs for New York. In 2015, our goal is to see 10,000-15,000 men and women join
the for-hire vehicle industry, but we can only do this with City Halls help. In 2014, forhire vehicle licensing waiting times tripled from roughly 20 days to roughly 60 days. We
would like to work collaboratively with City Hall to figure-out ways to shorten these
licensing waiting periods, and if required, are prepared to provide resources to assist in
the effort.
Supporting Proposed Expansion of NYC Ferry Service

Many of New York Citys existing ferry stops in places like Red Hook and the
Rockaways, and new ones proposed in the State of the City in places like Soundview
and Long Island City, are in locations far away from subways, bus stops and other
transit. Ubers average 3-4 minutes pickup ETAs in NYC make it a good resource for
ensuring more New Yorkers can easily use expanded ferry service for their
transportation needs.
To help promote expanded ferry service and encourage New Yorkers to use it, Uber will:
Offer a promotional discount for ferry commuters;
Direct supply of vehicles using the Uber platform near ferry landings to ensure
reliable service; and
Pay for advertisements on ferries to inform passengers that Uber rides are readily
available to help them seamlessly complete their commutes.
Providing Tech Support to Key City Services and Initiatives
Uber has some of the best engineers in the tech industry. We would welcome
opportunities to help City Hall strategize about about ways to improve key City services
and initiatives, leveraging our in-house talent wherever possible, to help tackle
challenges like tracking snow removal, implementing the City ID program, and speedingup clearance rate for NYCHA maintenance requests. We would commit to monthly
meetings between relevant agency engineers and Uber engineers, with the
understanding that Uber would help the City establish best practices that Uber has
tested.