Spatio-Temporal Efficiency in a Taxi Dispatch System

• Main Authors: SANTANI, Darshan, BALAN, Rajesh Krishna, WOODARD, C. Jason
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Computer Sciences; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering; Transportation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research_smu/9; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=sis_research_smu
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In this paper, we present an empirical analysis of the GPS-enabled taxi dispatch system used by the world’s second largest land transportation company. We first summarize the collective dynamics of the more than 6,000 taxicabs in this fleet. Next, we propose a simple method for evaluating the effici...