Recently, the traditional taxi industry has been struggling to keep its market share, especially
with the emergence of new transport network companies (eg, Uber). One of the problems …

This paper proposes a two-layer decision framework to model taxi drivers' customer-search
behaviors within urban areas. The first layer models taxi drivers' pickup location choice …

Much of the taxi route-planning literature has focused on driver strategies for finding
passengers and determining the hot spot pick-up locations using historical global …

In an urban setting, such as the city of Beijing, after a taxi driver drops the previous
passenger, he/she needs to decide where to drive to find the next---preferably lucrative …

The taxi fleet management systems based on GPS have become an important tool for taxi
businesses. Such systems can be used not only for fleet management, but also to provide …

The prediction of the destination location at the time of pickup is an important problem with
potential for substantial impact on the efficiency of a GPS-enabled taxi service. While this …

Taxi service strategies, as the crowd intelligence of massive taxi drivers, are hidden in their
historical time-stamped GPS traces. Mining GPS traces to understand the service strategies …

In this paper, we seek to identify the different impacts of external and internal information on
taxis' cruising behaviors and to find effective methods to enhance taxis' cruising efficiency …

Emerging on-line reservation services and special car services have greatly affected the
development of the taxi industry. Surprisingly, taking a taxi is still a significant problem in …

In this study, global positioning system data from 460 urban taxis are used to develop a time-
dependent logit model. The rate of return (ROR, also known as profit per unit time) is used …