What Makes a Good Cabman? Behavioral Patterns Correlated with High-Earning and Low-Earning Taxi Driving
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Preliminaries
2.1. MRI System and Map Data
2.2. Taxi Trace Data
2.3. Calculation of Income
3. Method
3.1. Categorizing Taxi Drivers by Income Level
3.2. Defining Correlated Variables Affecting Income Level
3.2.1. Occupied Trips and Duration
3.2.2. Operational Region
3.2.3. Search Speed
3.2.4. Driver Service Strategies
3.3. Discretized Factors
3.4. Applying a Selected Sample-Based Multinomial Logit (SML) Model
4. Results and Discussion
4.1. Collinearity Diagnosis of the Factors
4.2. SML Model Results and Significant Factors
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | High-Earning Group | Low-Earning Group | ||
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Tolerance | VIF | Tolerance | VIF | |
0.724 | 1.382 | 0.815 | 1.227 | |
0.759 | 1.318 | 0.826 | 1.210 | |
0.899 | 1.112 | 0.712 | 1.404 | |
0.953 | 1.050 | 0.939 | 1.064 | |
0.743 | 1.345 | 0.574 | 1.744 | |
0.886 | 1.129 | 0.868 | 1.152 | |
0.463 | 2.159 | 0.550 | 1.819 | |
0.854 | 1.171 | 0.856 | 1.168 | |
0.543 | 1.843 | 0.541 | 1.848 |
Driver Feature | Model Evaluation Index | Number of Selected Driver Samples | |||
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Log Likelihood | Pearson’s X2 | p Value | Pseudo R2 | ||
High-earning | 2018.79 | 1453.07 | 0.001 | 0.31 | 1969 |
Low-earning | 1785.89 | 1239.95 | 0.001 | 0.43 | 2148 |
Driver Feature | Variable | Coefficient | Std. Err. | p Value | Odds Ratio | 95% Conf. Interval | ||
High-earning | = 1 | 1.29 | 0.23 | 0.001 | 3.65 | 2.31 | 5.76 | |
1 | = 2 | 0.70 | 0.17 | 0.001 | 2.01 | 1.43 | 2.82 | |
= 1 | −1.37 | 0.23 | 0.001 | 0.25 | 0.16 | 0.40 | ||
= 2 | −1.38 | 0.18 | 0.001 | 0.25 | 0.18 | 0.36 | ||
= 1 | 1.19 | 0.18 | 0.001 | 3.29 | 2.31 | 4.69 | ||
= 2 | 0.26 | 0.15 | 0.085 | 1.29 | 0.96 | 1.73 | ||
= 1 | 1.46 | 0.26 | 0.001 | 4.29 | 2.55 | 7.20 | ||
= 2 | 0.30 | 0.17 | 0.072 | 1.35 | 0.97 | 1.87 | ||
= 1 | −3.00 | 0.32 | 0.001 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.09 | ||
= 2 | −1.33 | 0.28 | 0.001 | 0.26 | 0.15 | 0.46 | ||
= 1 | −1.72 | 0.22 | 0.001 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.27 | ||
= 2 | −0.11 | 0.18 | 0.530 | 0.89 | 0.63 | 1.27 | ||
= 1 | 1.86 | 0.23 | 0.001 | 6.39 | 4.11 | 9.95 | ||
= 2 | 0.78 | 0.16 | 0.001 | 2.19 | 1.60 | 2.99 | ||
Constant | 1.55 | 0.36 | 0.001 | - | - | |||
= 1 | 1.06 | 0.23 | 0.001 | 2.90 | 1.86 | 4.52 | ||
2 | = 2 | 0.93 | 0.17 | 0.001 | 2.52 | 1.81 | 3.51 | |
= 1 | −0.98 | 0.23 | 0.001 | 0.37 | 0.24 | 0.59 | ||
= 2 | −0.47 | 0.18 | 0.010 | 0.62 | 0.44 | 0.89 | ||
= 1 | 0.48 | 0.18 | 0.005 | 1.62 | 1.15 | 2.29 | ||
= 2 | −0.08 | 0.14 | 0.585 | 0.93 | 0.71 | 1.22 | ||
=1 | 0.66 | 0.27 | 0.014 | 1.93 | 1.14 | 3.26 | ||
= 2 | 0.44 | 0.16 | 0.007 | 1.55 | 1.13 | 2.12 | ||
= 1 | −1.66 | 0.33 | 0.001 | 0.19 | 0.10 | 0.37 | ||
= 2 | −0.26 | 0.31 | 0.403 | 0.77 | 0.43 | 1.41 | ||
= 1 | −1.74 | 0.20 | 0.001 | 0.18 | 0.12 | 0.26 | ||
= 2 | −0.11 | 0.17 | 0.505 | 0.89 | 0.64 | 1.24 | ||
= 1 | 1.09 | 0.23 | 0.001 | 2.97 | 1.91 | 4.61 | ||
= 2 | 0.69 | 0.15 | 0.001 | 1.99 | 1.50 | 2.66 | ||
Constant | 0.40 | 0.38 | 0.2888 | - | - | |||
Low-earning | = 1 | 0.96 | 0.25 | 0.001 | 2.62 | 1.61 | 4.27 | |
1 | = 2 | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.724 | 1.07 | 0.72 | 1.59 | |
= 1 | −1.64 | 0.24 | 0.001 | 0.19 | 0.12 | 0.31 | ||
= 2 | −1.67 | 0.20 | 0.001 | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.28 | ||
= 1 | −0.74 | 0.27 | 0.006 | 0.48 | 0.28 | 0.81 | ||
= 2 | −0.78 | 0.17 | 0.001 | 0.46 | 0.33 | 0.64 | ||
= 1 | 1.51 | 0.20 | 0.001 | 4.53 | 3.08 | 6.66 | ||
= 2 | 0.19 | 0.16 | 0.230 | 1.21 | 0.89 | 1.65 | ||
= 1 | −3.63 | 0.35 | 0.001 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.05 | ||
= 2 | −2.54 | 0.18 | 0.001 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.11 | ||
= 1 | 1.10 | 0.24 | 0.001 | 3.00 | 1.87 | 4.83 | ||
= 2 | 0.53 | 0.21 | 0.010 | 1.70 | 1.14 | 2.55 | ||
= 1 | 2.23 | 0.53 | 0.001 | 9.33 | 3.31 | 26.28 | ||
= 2 | 0.98 | 0.51 | 0.055 | 2.66 | 0.98 | 7.24 | ||
Constant | 0.51 | 0.62 | 0.406 | - | - | |||
= 1 | 0.90 | 0.20 | 0.001 | 2.47 | 1.66 | 3.67 | ||
2 | = 2 | 0.31 | 0.17 | 0.068 | 1.36 | 0.98 | 1.89 | |
= 1 | −0.80 | 0.20 | 0.001 | 0.45 | 0.30 | 0.66 | ||
= 2 | −0.66 | 0.16 | 0.001 | 0.52 | 0.38 | 0.71 | ||
= 1 | −0.42 | 0.21 | 0.042 | 0.66 | 0.44 | 0.99 | ||
=2 | −0.49 | 0.15 | 0.001 | 0.62 | 0.46 | 0.82 | ||
= 1 | 0.36 | 0.18 | 0.043 | 1.43 | 1.01 | 2.02 | ||
= 2 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.276 | 1.14 | 0.90 | 1.44 | ||
= 1 | −2.40 | 0.24 | 0.001 | 0.09 | 0.06 | 0.15 | ||
= 2 | −1.45 | 0.16 | 0.001 | 0.24 | 0.17 | 0.32 | ||
= 1 | 0.56 | 0.19 | 0.003 | 1.75 | 1.20 | 2.56 | ||
= 2 | 0.41 | 0.15 | 0.006 | 1.51 | 1.12 | 2.04 | ||
= 1 | 1.78 | 0.37 | 0.001 | 5.95 | 2.90 | 12.23 | ||
= 2 | 1.29 | 0.34 | 0.001 | 3.65 | 1.87 | 7.14 | ||
Constant | −0.17 | 0.46 | 0.712 | - | - |
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Jin, S.; Su, J.; Wu, Z.; Wang, D.; Cai, M. What Makes a Good Cabman? Behavioral Patterns Correlated with High-Earning and Low-Earning Taxi Driving. Sustainability 2022, 14, 15418. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215418
Jin S, Su J, Wu Z, Wang D, Cai M. What Makes a Good Cabman? Behavioral Patterns Correlated with High-Earning and Low-Earning Taxi Driving. Sustainability. 2022; 14(22):15418. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215418
Chicago/Turabian StyleJin, Shuxin, Juan Su, Zhouhao Wu, Di Wang, and Ming Cai. 2022. "What Makes a Good Cabman? Behavioral Patterns Correlated with High-Earning and Low-Earning Taxi Driving" Sustainability 14, no. 22: 15418. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215418