Economic Regulation and Innovative Services for Taxi Market
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Wu, Chi-Hsuan
Abstract
Taxis play an important role in public transportation in urban and suburban areas. This study aims to explore the following subjects related to a healthy and sustainable taxi market: (1) Regulation strategies, (2) Pricing schemes for peak and off-peak periods, (3) Automatic dispatching system and (4) Innovative service platform. The operation modes vary from how drivers run their business such as cruising and riding, taxi cooperatives, scheduled taxis, radio dispatching, satellite dispatching and internet dispatching…etc. To well allocate resources and increase social welfare, taxis in cities are regulated at different levels which aim at keeping the market in order. Generally speaking, regulations to taxis mainly focus on license plates, drivers’ licenses, fare and service. There are three legal operation modes in Taiwan which are taxi companies, private hired taxis and taxi cooperatives. In order to provide taxi services, those who provide dispatching services are particularly governed under the taxi operation regulations. In the past, economic models describing cruising taxi market were constructed for discussing the demand and supply issue of taxis, which examined quantity, fare and quality of services. Based on current models and for being more precise, the following article will take new dispatching types and the peak/off-peak hour characteristics of cruising taxis into consideration.
The taxi market works ineffectively owing to the regulating difficulty, to improve the situation, it is necessary to adjust the policy and encourage operators to provide innovative services as well. From the economic perspective, innovation is new products and services transformed from the change of factors and conditions of production. To keep competitive advantage, operators need to continuously strengthen the core competitiveness during the innovation process affected by technical improvement or system revolution. From engineering perspective, innovation is about developing new products, making changes in cost, production, types, design and functions. However, leaping concepts cannot bring about innovation; through systematic process can the time and cost be decreased, accelerating the revolution of products or services. Information asymmetry is the critical reason why taxi market doesn’t work; therefore this article would like to introduce a mode that passengers are able to choose services and prices on their own, also the taxi drivers can establish their own brand and provide customized services.
Subjects
計程車
營運模式
分析性數學
商業模式
SDGs
Type
thesis
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