Research Article

The Impact of Fleet Coordination on Taxi Operations

Table 1

Summary of the baseline fleet characteristics derived from the taxi data in Sections 4.1ā€“4.3.

ā€‰San FranciscoChicagoZurich

Data-based
Trips18,26349,5641,244
Customer distance (km)121,400218,5816,727

Estimated
Vehicles4952,47995
Empty distance (km)62,907114,4126,658

Derived
Average trip distance (km)6.654.415.41
Trips per vehicle36.8919.9913.09
Empty distance per vehicle (km)127.0846.1570.08
Total distance per vehicle (km)372.34134.33140.89
Empty distance share (%)34.1334.3649.74