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A new taxicab fare collection methodology is proposed. The formulation developed is based on an urban fuel consumption study performed in Austin, Dallas, and Lubbock, Texas, and in Matamoros, Mexico. The formulation determines the fare as a function of travel distance and time with parameters related to vehicle operating cost, driver's wage, and the taxicab agency's profit and overhead cost. A survey of the 1985 fare-setting policies of taxicab agencies in some major U.S. cities has also been performed. On the basis of the survey results, a comparison is made between the currently used and the proposed fare-determination algorithms. The results of a numerical example indicate that the current practice slightly overestimates that of the travel distance. Consequently the currently charged fare for a trip in congested traffic conditions (long peak-period customer, whereas the reverse holds for the off-peak traffic conditions. The proposed fare-determination algorithm may be particularly useful to regulatory agencies in inferring a taxi agency's unit profit rate embedded in its fare-pricing policy. In addition, the fuel consumption-based algorithm could be used by regulatory agencies to establish fare guidelines in conjunction with taxicab operating costs and revenues.

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Algorithms; Fare collection; Fuel consumption; Taxicabs; Travel time; Trip length

Energy; Finance; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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