MassDOT and MBTA partner with Uber and Lyft for accessible rides, Boston, Massachusetts, 2019

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) have partnered with transportation network companies (TNCs), Lyft and Uber, to launch a one-year pilot program aiming to improve mobility for individuals with disabilities. Through this partnership, MassDOT and MBTA are offering Lyft and Uber fixed subsidies of $24 per hour for every hour that these companies make wheelchair-accessible vehicles (WAVs) available for use by customers within the designated service area. The service area will initially be the same as that of The RIDE (MBTA’s existing on-demand paratransit program). Through this pilot, MassDOT and MBTA hope to quadruple WAV supply hours.

Contributed through a partnership between the Shared-Use Mobility Center, ITS America and the Federal Transit Administration’s Mobility on Demand Program. 

Updated May 2019