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Evaluate Financial Feasibility of Ride-Sharing Service

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Evaluates ride-sharing financial feasibility with pricing, capacity, driver costs, fixed costs, and competitive strategy. Strong answers compute driver capacity, daily revenue, driver cost, fixed cost, and profit, then assess pricing and utilization levers with marketplace health guardrails.

Scenario

You manage a ride-sharing service and must analyze pricing, costs, capacity, and competitive strategy.

Question

What key factors would you evaluate when assessing the financial feasibility of the ride-share business? 2. Given 2,400 rides per day at $30 each, drivers paid $700/day, a maximum of 5 rides per driver per hour over an 8-hour day, and a fixed daily cost of $10,000, calculate the daily profit. 3. How could you further increase profit, and what advantages can the app offer versus street-hailing taxis? Explain the role of supply-demand balance. 4. The day is split into 4 non-peak hours with 800 rides and 4 peak hours with 1,600 rides. Drivers work the full day. What peak-hour price per ride would make total daily profit equal to the profit computed in Question 2? 5. Provide additional recommendations to improve the business.

Hints

Segment revenue, variable costs, fixed costs; derive number of drivers from capacity; set profit equations and solve for unknown price; discuss elasticity, surge pricing, and driver/passenger incentives.