論文名稱：Analytical Evaluation of Innovative Taxi Operation and Service

摘要：The most common taxi operation service is conventional cruising randomly around the city to search for passengers. Because of de-regulation policy, over-supply and high vacancy rate have caused inefficient operation and low performance in taxi market. Therefore, this paper aims to create an innovative operation service and evaluate the environmental benefits compared with the conventional cruising services. It is shown that innovative dispatching service can have a 4.35 billion USD of energy saving per year in Taipei Metropolitan. Numerical results have also shown other external effects of innovative dispatching service, including less air pollution, traffic accidents and traffic congestion.