Shared Autonomous Taxi System and Utilization of Collected Travel-Time Information

Understanding taxi travel patterns

Taxis play important roles in modern urban transportation systems, especially in mega cities. While providing necessary amenities, taxis also significantly contribute to traffic congestion, urban energy consumption, and air pollution. Understanding the travel patterns of taxis is thus important for addressing many urban sustainability challenges. Previous research has primarily focused on exami...

Influence of real-time information provision to vacant taxi drivers on taxi system performance

This paper assumes that all taxi drivers adopt a profit maximization strategy when searching for customers. Some taxi drivers are provided with real-time information on customer and taxi queue lengths at all taxi stands while others have no information at all. The questions to be investigated are: (1) will equipped taxi drivers earn a higher profit compared to the uninformed taxi drivers? (2) W...

Design and Modeling of Real-time Shared-Taxi Dispatch Algorithms

1 Taxi is certainly the most popular type of on-demand transportation service in urban areas because taxi 2 dispatching systems offer more and better services in terms of shorter wait times and travel convenience. 3 However, a shortage of taxicabs has always been critical in many urban contexts especially during peak 4 hours and taxi has great potential to maximize its efficiency by employing s...

Quality of Real-time Travel Time Information

Travel-time Measuring System for Efficient Traffic Information Service

OVERVIEW: Traffic control systems for automobile traffic are being set up that allow more advanced traffic signal control according to traffic conditions and provide drivers with the real-time traffic information that they need to make their own driving decisions. The traffic information required by the driver includes traffic regulations, degree of congestion, parking space availability and so...