Taxis (which include cars working with car aggregation systems such as Uber, Grab, Lyft etc.) have become a critical component in the urban transportation. While most research and applications in the context of taxis have focused on improving performance from a customer perspective, in this paper, we focus on improving performance from a taxi driver perspective. Higher revenues for taxi drivers...

Empty taxi cruising represents a wastage of resources in the context of urban taxi services. In this work, we seek to minimize such wastage. An analysis of a large trace of taxi operations reveals that the services’ inefficiency is caused by drivers’ greedy cruising behavior. We model the existing system as a continuous time Markov chain. To address the problem, we propose that each taxi be equ...

Structural MRIs of the brains of humans with extensive navigation experience, licensed London taxi drivers, were analyzed and compared with those of control subjects who did not drive taxis. The posterior hippocampi of taxi drivers were significantly larger relative to those of control subjects. A more anterior hippocampal region was larger in control subjects than in taxi drivers. Hippocampal ...

There are presently about 130 000 minibus taxis on South Africa’s roads. Currently this industry is not fully regulated. The impact of this on the transport system is immense since 65% of all commuter trips are undertaken by minibus taxis. South Africa's roads are among the most dangerous in the world, with accidents claiming the lives of no fewer than 10 000 people every year a large portion o...

Workplace hazards have been a major cause of concern in the taxi industry and management has been actively involved in trying to reduce the hazards faced by taxi drivers. However, it appears that there has not been sufficient emphasis placed on the physical health and emotional well-being of drivers. This research project integrates the various factors that influence the safety behaviour, physi...

A video event data recorder (VEDR) in a motor vehicle records images before and after a traffic accident. This report describes a taxi driver whose seizures were recorded by VEDR, which was extremely useful for the diagnosis of epilepsy. The patient was a 63-year-old right-handed Japanese male taxi driver. He collided with a streetlight. Two years prior to this incident, he raced an engine for ...

Adverse accounts of wheelchair user's experience of the taxi service have been reported. It is not clear whether these experiences are "once off" or reflect those of the user group. Wheelchair users living in cities throughout Ireland were surveyed. Of 306 questionnaires a response rate of 40.3% was achieved. Nearly 50% felt they had been refused a taxi because of their condition. Fifty one per...

With the advancement of urbanization, how to make the city taxi system efficiently operate is an important problem in public transportation. The traditional cruise or point-point type guest-looking ways lead to the waste of resources, high operation cost and long passengers' waiting time. This is because the information transmission between the taxi and passenger is not real-time. This paper im...

This study is an ethical analysis of the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the context of taxi business, i.e. it is an attempt to investigate the ethical consequences of installing GPS in taxis. The reason for installing GPS in taxis was to increase the taxi drivers’ security, but there are other effects of the installation as well. When the stakeholders that are possibly affected by the techn...

Squamous cell carcinoma of the scrotum is rare and to the best of our knowledge has never been reported from Nigeria. We report on a case thought to be occupation-related in a 42-year old Nigerian taxi driver who had previously been an automobile mechanic and later a long-haul truck driver. He presented with a stage D disease and only palliation was feasible.