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Assembly committee presses CPUC on release of TNC trip data and oversight
Summary
At an informational hearing, the Assembly Communications Conveyance Committee heard from California Public Utilities Commission staff about regulation of transportation network companies and wrestled with why most trip-level data submitted to the CPUC remains unpublished or heavily redacted.
Chair Tasha Burner opened a California State Assembly Communications Conveyance Committee hearing on Transportation Network Companies by asking the California Public Utilities Commission to outline its regulatory role and the status of TNC data reporting.
The CPUC described a decade of oversight and said it collects detailed, annual trip and safety reports from companies such as Uber and Lyft but that a mixture of confidentiality claims, appeals and procedural steps has delayed publication of most trip-level data the commission has deemed public.
The commission described its authority, how the reporting system has changed and how the data are used. S. Pat Sen, CPUC Deputy Executive Director for Consumer Policy, Transportation and Enforcement, said the CPUC’s authority to regulate TNCs was affirmed by the Legislature in Assembly Bill 2293 and that TNC annual reports have been required since 2014. Tara Curtis, director of the CPUC’s Consumer Protection and Enforcement Division, described programs the CPUC administers using that data,…
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