i am very pleased to welcome chris benner, lead researcher of survey of on demand be workers who will present the findings and talk about next steps. >> welcome. >> thank you for the opportunity to present to you. this is really presenting work in progress. as you know and trying to set recommendations for the final stage of the survey and where we are going for the final study and as bryan mentioned thi thiss the collective work of the partners on the research team. this is a powerpoint you have in your packet and on the public record for this meeting. just to summarize what i hope to get across today is that in the pilot phase of the study we were exploring two survey methods to make sure they work and exploring the use of a mobile app to gather more detailed information about drivers, patterns, particularly in the ride hailing portion of the on demand mobility service work. we discovered the preferred method works. it is more expensive than we originally anticipated. we were able to demonstrate the data gathered from the mobile app is extremely valuable but more complicated to coll