SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN THE QUEBEC TAXI INDUSTRY. SUPPLY AND DEMAND CHARACTERISTICS

The Ministry of Transport of Quebec has conducted a study on the characteristics of supply and demand for taxi services in Quebec's 53 urban areas. The methodology used for the study consisted in systematically recording calls received by service associations and in conducting two surveys of the activities of 1,000 taxi drivers selected at random. The first survey was conducted in November 1984 on 500 taxi drivers in Montreal-Centre, which issues 52 percent of Quebec's taxi permits. The second survey, carried out in November 1985, was also directed at the activities of 500 taxi drivers working in one of the 14 participating urban areas. The methodology employed allowed researchers to obtain a body of data on the number of calls recorded for the month of November by day, hour, urban area stratum, driver, vehicle, customer and trip. These data were used to determine the various productivity and profitability indicators by stratum and observation period. In November 1985, 1,184,000 calls were recorded for taxi service associations outside Montreal-Centre; the November 1984 figure was 866,000. The proportion of trips made following calls decreased indirectly with the size of the area, with 94 percent in small and medium-sized areas, 72 percent in the very large urban areas and 32 percent in Montreal. Therefore, the number of trips actually made by taxis is much greater than these 2 million calls recorded over the month. According to our compilations, the number of trips totalled 20 million in 1985 for all urban areas excluding Montreal, and 31 million in 1984 for Montreal. This represents a total of 50 million trips, for 70 million passengers transported and an overall sales figure of more than $220 million.

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  Quebec Ministry of Transport, Canada

  875 East, Grande Allee
  Quebec City, Quebec G1R 4K9,   Canada 
• Authors:
  • Trudel, M
• Publication Date: 1988

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: 74 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Surveys; Taxi services; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Montreal (Canada)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00476965
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 2-550-19021-1
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 31 1989 12:00AM