Shared-ride taxi (SRT) is different from the exclusive-ride taxi (ERT) in that the taxi may be shared by unrelated passengers with different origins/destinations. By simultaneously serving more than one passenger, SRT may improve vehicle productivity, permit fare reductions, and increase taxicab ridership. SRT may also serve as an integrated-transit feeder to conventional transit in suburban communities, thereby attracting new ridership to both SRT and transit. The major objective of the study is to develop the system requirements and perform a functional design of the computer control system (CCS) for an automated shared-ride taxi system. A secondary objective is to identify the environmental and system context in which these requirements are applicable. The study provides substantial evidence that the SRT-CCS concept is not only technically feasible and within the present state-of-the-art but also economically attractive for SRT fleets of 50 vehicles or more. Certain technical problem areas have been identified and should be resolved, but they do not appear to be unsolvable or to jeopardize the technical success of the concept. Appendix A of this report provides a bibliography that covers the entire study, not just this final report.
The Shared-Ride Taxi System Requirements Study
1979
167 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Road Transportation , Urban transportation , Requirements , Productivity , Fleets , Automation , Economic factors , Systems engineering , Suburban areas , Computer systems hardware , Computer programming , Scheduling , Marketing , Services , Cost effectiveness , Shared ride taxi systems , Taxicabs , Fares , Demand responsive transportation systems , Computer applications
NTIS | 1973
Shared-Ride Taxi Service in Boston, Massachusetts
NTIS | 1985
|Shared Ride Taxi Feeder Service in Memphis, TN
NTIS | 1988
|Computerised dispatching for shared‐ride taxi operations in Canada
Taylor & Francis Verlag | 1981
|A Preliminary Analysis of Two Shared-Ride Taxi Systems
NTIS | 1973
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