Abstract This study aims to contribute the limited empirical evidence on Automated Taxis (ATs) by analysing in-vehicle features that ATs ought have satisfy taxi passengers requests in a Normal Taxi (NT) are dealt with direct communication between passenger and driver. Based results of focus groups several pilots, two tested: change destination chat an operator during trip. The paper also contri...

This research involves the study of the existing taxi dispatch system employed by taxi operators in Singapore to handle current bookings. This dispatch system adopts the Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and is based on the nearest-coordinate method, i.e. the taxi assigned for each booking is the one with the shortest, direct, straight-line distance to the customer location. However, the taxi a...

The fast advancement in sensor data acquisition and communication technology greatly facilitates the collection of data from taxis, and thus enables analyzing the citywide taxi service system. In this paper, we present a novel and practical system for taxi service monitoring, analytics and visualization. By utilizing both of the buffered streaming and the large-size historical taxi data, the sy...

The current taxi operation mode features high ratio of vacant taxies roaming the streets, while lots of potential customers complaining being unable to find a taxi. The major reason for this inefficiency is that the current taxi dispatch system is incapable of exchanging information between taxi drivers, customers and the dispatch system in a real-time manner. This paper presents an approach to...

This research focuses on utilizing typically overlooked taxi manifest data to analyze taxi operations with respect to transit, and also presents alternative uses for the data in transportation planning. Taxi travel characteristics are explored for Arlington, Virginia, a county containing both urban and suburban qualities. Previous research contends that manifest data can provide valuable quanti...

We proposed and developed a taxi-sharing system that accepts taxi passengers’ real-time ride requests sent from smartphones and schedules proper taxis to pick up them via ridesharing, subject to time, capacity, and monetary constraints. The monetary constraints provide incentives for both passengers and taxi drivers: passengers will not pay more compared with no ridesharing and get compensated ...

BACKGROUND Our understanding of the effects of human movement on dengue virus spread remains limited in part due to the lack of precise tools to monitor the time-dependent location of individuals. We determined the utility of a new, commercially available, GPS data-logger for long-term tracking of human movements in Iquitos, Peru. We conducted a series of evaluations focused on GPS device attri...

background and objectives: day-shift taxi drivers have a long duration of direct sun exposure. however, the efficiency of this occupational exposure in vitamin d synthesis has not been addressed yet. the aim of this study was to assess the vitamin d status of taxi drivers in tehran, and examine vitamin d status association with some anthropometric and circulating biomarkers. materials and metho...