TAXIS AND OTHER PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. SPEAKER 6

This paper expresses the opinion that the nations need for demand-responsive transportation (DRT) could be met by independent taxi-paying businesses, and deplores the current tendency toward socialization of transportation. For more than 25 years Long Island's taxicab industry has, in fact, been a DRT system. It has paid its way while fares have been maintained low. It has accomplished this within the confirms of the existing socioeconomic system and without any direct subsidy through transit bills, tax relief, or price support for inequitable fuel costs.

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  • Presented at the Fifth Annual International Conference on Demand-Responsive Transportation Systems conducted by the TRB, Nov. 11-13, 1974, Oakland, Calif.; and co-sponsored by American Public Transit Association, California DOT, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit, MIT, UMTA and Technology Sharing Program of U.S. DOT. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
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• Authors:
  • Hirsch, Stanley
• Discussers:
  • Pine, Nick
  • Berman, Robert
  • Shreve, Tom
  • Roos, Daniel
  • Koizim, John
  • Gallucci, Frank
  • Baumann, Dwight
  • Bauman, Richard
  • Sanger
  • Higgins, Thomas
  • Rossoni, John
• Conference:
  • Fifth Annual Conference on Demand-Responsive Transportation Systems
  • Location: Oakland California, United States
  • Date: 1974-11-11 to 1974-11-13
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: pp 98-99
• Monograph Title: DEMAND-RESPONSIVE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS & SERVICES
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 154
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Demand responsive transportation; Fares; Private enterprise; Private transportation; Subsidies; Taxicabs; Urban transportation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00126179
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Dec 3 1981 12:00AM