INCREASING THE ROLE OF TAXIS IN URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT

The plea that taxis should be playing a greater role in urban public transport has been heard for many years. In Australian cities the only note-worthy attempt to facilitate this aim has been the introduction of some limited multiple-hire schemes. Innovative taxi operating schemes have been introduced in overseas cities aimed at reducing expenditure by the publicly operated transport organisations and at the same time increasing the revenue of the taxi industry. One of these schemes involves replacing buses with taxis on routes experiencing low passenger demand. This concept, known as "route-taxis", can be implemented in a number of different schemes. A theoretical study was undertaken for a specific bus route in Perth and a methodology was developed to ascertain the order-of- magnitude costs and benefits of replacing the bus service, at certain times, with a route-taxi. The study also identified a number of administrative and operational constraints that could hamper the introduction of route-taxi schemes. These constraints and a number of other issues relating to route-taxis are discussed in this paper. (TRRL)

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  • This paper was presented at the Transportation Conference, Adelaide, November 14-16, 1979.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institution of Engineers

  11 National Circuit
  Barton, A.C.T.,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Koltasz, E
• Conference:
  • This paper was presented at the Transportation Conference, Adelaide, November 14-16, 1979.
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 5-9

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Bus transportation; Buses; Conferences; Itinerary; Operating costs; Public transit; Taxicabs; Transportation planning; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Replacing
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• ITRD Terms: 8006: Australia; 1272: Bus; 8525: Conference; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 699: Itinerary; 221: Operating costs; 744: Public transport; 1148: Taxi; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00309147
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0 85825 119 1
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 79/11
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 26 1981 12:00AM