The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/lyft/)
If you caught a Lyft recently, you’ve already encountered the work of Prof. Siddhartha Banerjee, operations research and information engineering, whose studies online decision making to explain how Lyft decides what car to send to a customer requesting a ride.
Cornell students and Ithaca residents are organizing their own walk outs to protest against gun violence, joining the wave of student protests around the country.
With the surge of Cornellians returning since mid-August and some embarking on Ithaca’s hills for the first time, students and Ithacans alike share mixed reactions of the new transportation options.
The apps’ arrival comes a few days after the county legislature’s Transportation Committee met to discuss the entry of such services.