A network model of urban taxi services

Hai Yang and S. C. Wong

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 1998, vol. 32, issue 4, 235-246

Abstract: A network model is developed to describe how vacant and occupied taxis will cruise in a road network to search for customers and provide transportation services. The model can determine a number of system performance measures at equilibrium, such as vacant taxi movements and taxi utilization for a given road network and the customer origin-destination demand pattern. The effects of the taxi fleet size and the uncertainty on the system performances are explicitly taken into account. The model offers some interesting insights into the nature of the equilibrium of taxi services, and offers some policy-relevant results for decision making. These include the findings that the average taxi utilization decreases sharply with the number of taxis operating, and that the higher the taxi utilization, the larger the average customer waiting time.

Date: 1998
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (56)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191-2615(97)00042-8
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:transb:v:32:y:1998:i:4:p:235-246

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/supportfaq.cws_home/regional
https://shop.elsevie ... _01_ooc_1&version=01

Access Statistics for this article

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological is currently edited by Fred Mannering

More articles in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().