TAXI FLEET PERFORMANCE UNDER FLEXIBLE OPERATING CONDITIONS AND WITH IMPROVED SCHEDULING PROCEDURES
The adoption of ITS technology for dispatching purposes has streamlined taxi operations in most Australian cities. Further innovations, notably in fleet scheduling and in multiple-hire services, seem to promise further benefits in terms of operating efficiency and customer service. The authors have explored some of these prospects, and some more immediate practical issues, in a preliminary investigation of simulated taxi-operation scenarios in the Gold Coast region. The project demonstrated the use of CSIRO's LITRES-2 system in revealing possibilities for improved fleet deployment, some of them conditional on changes in the regulatory and other conditions under which the taxi industry operates. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no. E200397.
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Corporate Authors:
ITS Australia
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Authors:
- HORN, M
- Smith, J
- Robinson, B
- Conference:
- Publication Date: 1999
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Monograph Title: Digital maps are the key components for ITS applications
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Conferences; Deregulation; Economic efficiency; Intelligent transportation systems; Management; Mathematical models; Operating costs; Operations research; Taxicabs; Timetables; Vehicles
- Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
- Geographic Terms: Australia
- ITRD Terms: 155: Administration; 8006: Australia; 8525: Conference; 5911: Efficiency; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 6473: Mathematical model; 221: Operating costs; 9055: Operational research; 1148: Taxi; 1186: Timetable; 1255: Vehicle
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00794852
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: Jul 7 2000 12:00AM