Whenever traffic density becomes so critically high that it begins to jeopardize efficiency and safety, the answer lies in the ability to improve traffic coordination and movement precision. This study considers the surface-traffic problem at major airports, and establishes the possibility of highprecision taxi operations by applying state-of-the-art automatic control technologies. Due to the h...

The paper presents research on large-scale microscopic simulation of taxi services in Berlin and Barcelona based on floating car data collected by local taxi fleets. Firstly, Berlin’s and Barcelona’s taxi markets are shortly described and the demand and supply data obtained from FCD analysed. Secondly, the online taxi dispatching problem formulation for this specific case is given, followed by ...

Andrographolide (Andro) has emerged recently as a potential and effective anticancer agent with induction of apoptosis in some cancer cell lines while induction of G2/M arrest with weak apoptosis in others. Few studies have proved that Andro is also effective in combination therapy. The flavonoid Taxifolin (Taxi) has showed anti-oxidant and antiproliferative effects against different cancer cel...

The most common taxi operation service consists conventionally of cruising randomly around a city to search for passengers. Because of de-regulation policies, over-supply and high vacancy rates have caused inefficient operation and low performance in the taxi market. Therefore, this paper aims to create an innovative operational service and to evaluate the environmental benefits of this service...

This paper builds a model for estimating the fuel consumption of a taxiing aircraft using flight data recorder information from operational aircraft. The taxi fuel burn is modeled as a linear function of several potential explanatory variables including the taxi time, number of stops, number of turns and number of acceleration events, and the coefficients are estimated using least-squares regre...

This paper presents a case study of a taxi drive company whose problem is the pick up passengers more efficiently in order to save time and fuel. The taxi company journey starts and ends in the two near by locations, which can be address as the same location for the problem solving, transforming this problem in a typical Travelling Salesman Problem where the goal is, given a set of cities and r...

This paper describes the winning solution to the Taxi Trip Time Prediction Challenge run by Kaggle.com. The goal of the competition was to build a predictive framework that is able to predict the final destination and the total traveling time of taxi rides based on their (initial) partial trajectories. The available data consists of all taxi trips of 442 taxis running in the city of Porto withi...

In view of the ever-increasing air traffic, much attention in air-traffic-management research has been given to improving arrival and departure efficiency. As air traffic begins and ends at the airport, the issues of taxi delays and ground-operation incursions become more pressing. This paper considers the surface-traffic problem at major airports and envisions a collaborative traffic and aircr...