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  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
5,796 Views
17 Pages

Aberrant Driving Behaviour, Risk Involvement, and Their Related Factors Among Taxi Drivers

  • Javadreza Vahedi,
  • Afshin Shariat Mohaymany,
  • Zahra Tabibi and
  • Milad Mehdizadeh

The current study aims to investigate the aberrant driving behaviour and risk involvement of Iranian taxi drivers. The sample comprised 405 Iranian taxi drivers, who were recruited with a cross-sectional design, using a self-completion questionnaire...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,265 Views
15 Pages

Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components among Taxi Drivers in the City of Tshwane, South Africa

  • Eaglet Moditsa Mabetwa,
  • Kebogile Elizabeth Mokwena,
  • Peter Modupi Mphekgwana and
  • Perpetua Modjadji

8 February 2022

The occupation of taxi driving predisposes drivers to health risks, including obesity, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. Although individual components of metabolic syndrome (MetS) are documented, data is scarce on concurrent metabolic disturba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,545 Views
13 Pages

Deep-Learning-Based Prediction of High-Risk Taxi Drivers Using Wellness Data

  • Seolyoung Lee,
  • Jae Hun Kim,
  • Jiwon Park,
  • Cheol Oh and
  • Gunwoo Lee

Background: Factors related to the wellness of taxi drivers are important for identifying high-risk drivers based on human factors. The purpose of this study is to predict high-risk taxi drivers based on a deep learning method by identifying the well...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,313 Views
11 Pages

Need Safer Taxi Drivers? Use Psychological Characteristics to Find or Train!

  • Kayvan Aghabayk,
  • Leila Mashhadizade and
  • Sara Moridpour

20 May 2020

Professional drivers play a key role in urban road network safety. It is therefore important to employ safer drivers, also find the problem, and train the existing ones. However, a direct driving test may not be very useful solely because of drivers&...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,265 Views
23 Pages

Over the past few decades, taxi drivers’ income has received extensive attention from scholars. Previous studies have investigated the factors affecting taxi drivers’ income from multiple perspectives. However, less attention has been pai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,994 Views
11 Pages

Relicensing Practices of Taxi Drivers and Crane Operators Aged 70 Years and above in Singapore

  • Mei Leng Chan,
  • Yoko Wong,
  • Karen Tan,
  • Joon Cheng Seng,
  • Stephanie Jia Xian Ho,
  • Claire Jing Wen Wong and
  • Gerald Choon-Huat Koh

25 January 2022

Singapore is a rapidly ageing society, underpinned by national policies to promote successful and active ageing. Whilst older worker participation in the workforce is encouraged, policymakers are challenged to ensure that work competency is not compr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,962 Views
19 Pages

Taxi driving, a male-dominated occupation, is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The increased risk is linked to a high prevalence of modifiable CVD risk factors including overweight/obesity, poor nutrition, smoking, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,248 Views
14 Pages

Air Pollution and Tear Lactoferrin among Dry Eye Disease Modifications by Stress and Allergy: A Case–Control Study of Taxi Drivers

  • Wei Hao,
  • Fanxue Kong,
  • Wei Song,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Xueying Xu,
  • Zhongjuan Ren,
  • Jing Li and
  • Fei Yu

29 November 2022

Few studies have explored the possible associations between air pollution and tear lactoferrin (Lf) levels, a non-invasive biological marker of ocular surface diseases, among taxi drivers, while none have explored the modifications by stress and alle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,642 Views
14 Pages

8 December 2023

The present study attempted to explore the effects of sleep deprivation on the visual search patterns and hazard response times of taxi drivers when they encountered different types of hazards. A two (driver groups: sleep deprivation or control) &tim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,753 Views
22 Pages

The Association between Plant-Based Diets and Dietary Patterns with Cardiometabolic Risk in a Sample of Commercial Taxi Drivers in South Africa

  • Tatum Lopes,
  • Annalise Edith Zemlin,
  • Machoene Derrick Sekgala,
  • Zandile June-Rose Mchiza,
  • Rajiv Timothy Erasmus and
  • Andre Pascal Kengne

6 April 2023

The consumption of unhealthy foods and a sedentary lifestyle predispose individuals to non-communicable diseases. This study investigated the distribution and the association of plant-based diets (PBDs) and dietary patterns in relation to the cardiom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,442 Views
16 Pages

Spatiotemporal Analysis of Taxi-Driver Shifts Using Big Trace Data

  • Luling Cheng,
  • Xue Yang,
  • Luliang Tang,
  • Qian Duan,
  • Zihan Kan,
  • Xia Zhang and
  • Xinyue Ye

In taxi management, taxi-driver shift behaviors play a key role in arranging the operation of taxis, which affect the balance between the demand and supply of taxis and the parking spaces. At the same time, these behaviors influence the daily travel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
7,211 Views
21 Pages

Predicting Risky and Aggressive Driving Behavior among Taxi Drivers: Do Spatio-Temporal Attributes Matter?

  • Muhammad Zahid,
  • Yangzhou Chen,
  • Sikandar Khan,
  • Arshad Jamal,
  • Muhammad Ijaz and
  • Tufail Ahmed

Risky and aggressive driving maneuvers are considered a significant indicator for traffic accident occurrence as well as they aggravate their severity. Traffic violations caused by such uncivilized driving behavior is a global issue. Studies in exist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,162 Views
14 Pages

Comparison of Quality of Life and Work Ability of Taxi and Motorcycle Taxi Drivers: Evidence from Brazil

  • Hugo Machado Sanchez,
  • Eliane Gouveia de Morais Sanchez,
  • Maria Alves Barbosa,
  • Celmo Celeno Porto and
  • Mario Silva Approbato

Urban transport drivers, specifically taxi and motorcycle taxi drivers, are exposed to particular environmental, societal, and health situations related to their occupation. To compare work capacity and quality of life of taxi and motorcycle taxi dri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,453 Views
19 Pages

In China, the traditional taxi industry is conforming to the trend of the times, with taxi drivers working with e-hailing applications. This reform is of great significance, not only for the taxi industry, but also for the transportation industry, ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,070 Views
11 Pages

17 February 2021

Taxis are a form of public transport which is very closely related to the safety of the public. Although private and corporate taxis have quite different characteristics, there have only been a few studies comparing the characteristics of corporate a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,299 Views
23 Pages

24 August 2018

A popular phenomenon in the street-hailing taxi system is the imbalanced mobility services between city central and outside downtown areas, which leads to unmet demand outside downtown areas and competitions in city central areas. Understanding taxi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,724 Views
19 Pages

Association between Macronutrient and Fatty Acid Consumption and Metabolic Syndrome: A South African Taxi Driver Survey

  • Machoene Derrick Sekgala,
  • Maretha Opperman,
  • Buhle Mpahleni and
  • Zandile June-Rose Mchiza

We aimed to examine the association between macronutrient and fatty acid intake and metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its components in South African male mini-bus taxi drivers. One hundred and eighty-five (n = 185) male taxi drivers, aged 20 years and o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,395 Views
20 Pages

Optimizing Cruising Routes for Taxi Drivers Using a Spatio-Temporal Trajectory Model

  • Liang Wu,
  • Sheng Hu,
  • Li Yin,
  • Yazhou Wang,
  • Zhanlong Chen,
  • Mingqiang Guo,
  • Hao Chen and
  • Zhong Xie

Much of the taxi route-planning literature has focused on driver strategies for finding passengers and determining the hot spot pick-up locations using historical global positioning system (GPS) trajectories of taxis based on driver experience, dista...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
323 Views
7 Pages

Prevalence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Adherence to CPAP for TAXI Drivers

  • Yik Hin Chan,
  • Anastasya Maria Kosasih,
  • Venetia Kok,
  • Yi-Hui Ou,
  • Yun Jing Crystal Chng,
  • Joshua J. Gooley and
  • Chi-Hang Lee

We investigated the effects of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) on blood pressure (BP) and vigilance in taxi drivers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This pilot study recruited taxi drivers aged ≥60 years to undergo polysomnography. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,416 Views
14 Pages

Electrification of mobility exceeds personal transport to increasingly focus on particular segments such as city logistics and taxis. These commercial mobility segments have different motives to purchase a full electric vehicle and require a particul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,103 Views
14 Pages

With the rapidly aging population, taxi drivers are aging at a fast pace, and competition in the taxi industry is intensifying due to the emergence of various transportation platforms. A descriptive secondary data study was conducted (on a total of 9...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,428 Views
22 Pages

Taxi trajectories reflect human mobility over the urban roads’ network. Although taxi drivers cruise the same city streets, there is an observed variation in their daily profit. To reveal the reasons behind this issue, this study introduces a novel a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
17 Pages

Rural transport remains a critical factor of social inclusion in South Africa, particularly for people with disabilities who rely on public transport. This study explores the experiences of minibus taxi drivers in transporting passengers with disabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,223 Views
20 Pages

Effects of Aging on Taxi Service Performance: A Comparative Study Based on Different Age Groups

  • Xiao Lin,
  • Zhengfeng Huang,
  • Yun Ye,
  • Jingxin Dong,
  • Hongxiang Feng and
  • Pengjun Zheng

20 November 2023

Rapid population aging has significantly impacted labor supply and posed substantial challenges for the taxi industry, which have not yet been fully comprehended. Here, for the first time, we employ a large-scale dataset of taxi driver operations fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,982 Views
28 Pages

Assessment of Public Transportation Safety Measures in Yaoundé, Cameroon: Case of Collective Taxis

  • Idris Karel Seunda Ekwe,
  • Stephen Kome Fondzenyuy,
  • Steffel Ludivin Feudjio Tezong,
  • Jean François Wounba,
  • Davide Shingo Usami and
  • Luca Persia

11 November 2024

Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, is one of the cities in the country most affected by road traffic crashes. Despite the measures taken by authorities, the human factor remains a major cause of these crashes. This study aimed to evaluate the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,774 Views
23 Pages

13 October 2022

This research examined human interaction in a taxi driving company, analyzing the cultural influence of the management’s social definition of its employees. In addition, this case study examined the relevance of “activity theory” th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,854 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2023

Much effort has been devoted towards the identification of brain areas recruited during driving—as one of the most common motor skills of human beings. However, how driving experience impacts on the brain’s intrinsic functional architectu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,497 Views
24 Pages

22 December 2020

This paper uses a neural network approach transformer of taxi driver behavior to predict the next destination with geographical factors. The problem of predicting the next destination is a well-studied application of human mobility, for reducing traf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,645 Views
15 Pages

Uncovering Distribution Patterns of High Performance Taxis from Big Trace Data

  • Luliang Tang,
  • Fei Sun,
  • Zihan Kan,
  • Chang Ren and
  • Luling Cheng

The unbalanced distribution of taxi passengers in space and time affects taxi driver performance. Existing research has studied taxi driver performance by analyzing taxi driver strategies when the taxi is occupied. However, searching for passengers w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,498 Views
23 Pages

Optimization of Taxi Allocation for Minimizing CO2 Emissions Based on Heuristics Algorithms

  • Manik Mondal,
  • Kazushi Sano,
  • Teppei Kato and
  • Chonnipa Puppateravanit

9 June 2023

Recently, the rapid climate change caused by increasing CO2 emissions has become a global concern. Efficient transportation systems are necessary to reduce CO2 emissions in cities. Taxi services are an essential part of the transportation system, bot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,746 Views
11 Pages

13 February 2020

The relationship between overweight, obesity, or body mass index (BMI) and crashes among drivers of passenger cars, vans, and trucks has been the focus of much research. However, little is understood about this relationship among motorcyclists, parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,451 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2022

Online ride-hailing services, which are characterized by online matching, are generally considered improving the work efficiency of taxi drivers and bring disruptive changes to the taxi market. We use the historical and contemporaneous trip-level big...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,576 Views
16 Pages

20 November 2022

The average hourly income of taxi drivers could be improved by understanding the realized income of taxi drivers and investigating the variables that determine their income. Based on 4.85 million taxi-trajectory GPS records in Shenzhen, China, this s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,055 Views
21 Pages

Nowadays, the market demand for taxis is still intense. However, there exist lots of issues affecting the healthy development of the taxi industry, such as an increasing difficulty in hailing taxis, detouring behavior etc., and especially, the low in...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,191 Views
24 Pages

Modern taxi services are usually classified into two major categories: traditional taxicabs and ride-hailing services. For both services, it is required to design highly efficient recommendation systems to satisfy passengers’ quality of experie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,715 Views
13 Pages

Factors Influencing Matching of Ride-Hailing Service Using Machine Learning Method

  • Myungsik Do,
  • Wanhee Byun,
  • Doh Kyoum Shin and
  • Hyeryun Jin

12 October 2019

It is common to call a taxi by taxi-apps in Korea and it was believed that an app-taxi service would provide customers with more convenience. However, customers’ requests can often be denied, as taxi drivers can decide whether to take calls fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,431 Views
12 Pages

Respiratory Health and Urinary Trace Metals among Artisanal Stone-Crushers: A Cross-Sectional Study in Lubumbashi, DR Congo

  • Tony Kayembe-Kitenge,
  • Irene Kabange Umba,
  • Paul Musa Obadia,
  • Sebastien Mbuyi-Musanzayi,
  • Patient Nkulu Banza,
  • Patrick D. M. C. Katoto,
  • Cyrille Katshiez Nawej,
  • Georges Kalenga Ilunga,
  • Vincent Haufroid and
  • Benoit Nemery
  • + 2 authors

Background: Thousands of artisanal workers are exposed to mineral dusts from various origins in the African Copperbelt. We determined the prevalence of respiratory symptoms, pulmonary function, and urinary metals among artisanal stone-crushers in Lub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,186 Views
26 Pages

10 February 2024

In order to effectively solve the problem of electric taxi charging load prediction and reasonable charging behaviour discrimination, in this paper, we use taxi GPS trajectory data to mine the probability of operation behaviour in each area of the ci...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,952 Views
10 Pages

23 January 2023

In 2013, the first electric taxis were launched in Hong Kong. In 2021, the HKSAR government announced that no new registration of fuel-propelled private cars, including hybrid vehicles, will be granted by the year 2035. Local public policies have sho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,867 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2020

The shift to electric vehicles has brought about the potential to reduce the environmental damage caused by road transport. However, several challenges prevent wider adoption of electric vehicles, such as: a lack of charging facilities, long charging...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,159 Views
14 Pages

Taxi Demand and Fare Prediction with Hybrid Models: Enhancing Efficiency and User Experience in City Transportation

  • Ka Seng Chou,
  • Kei Long Wong,
  • Boliang Zhang,
  • Davide Aguiari,
  • Sio Kei Im,
  • Chan Tong Lam,
  • Rita Tse,
  • Su-Kit Tang and
  • Giovanni Pau

11 September 2023

An essential part of a city’s transportation infrastructure, taxis allow for regular encounters between drivers and customers. Nevertheless, there are issues with efficiency since there is an imbalance in the supply and demand for taxis. This s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
9,468 Views
20 Pages

Anomalous taxi trajectories are those chosen by a small number of drivers that are different from the regular choices of other drivers. These anomalous driving trajectories provide us an opportunity to extract driver or passenger behaviors and monito...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,854 Views
13 Pages

9 March 2017

Whatever else it takes to drive a taxi, it takes trust. Day after day, the driver has to decide whether the other is or is not trustworthy. I take the taxi as a test case to analyze and assess Richard Kearney’s diacritical hermeneutics of the other....

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,215 Views
16 Pages

Choice Behavior of Autonomous Vehicles Based on Logistic Models

  • Limin Tan,
  • Changxi Ma,
  • Xuecai Xu and
  • Jin Xu

19 December 2019

To understand the public’s acceptance of autonomous vehicles, studies were conducted from the perspectives of personal attributes, travel demand and cognitions of autonomous vehicles based on 403 valid questionnaires. Influencing factors of whe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,684 Views
25 Pages

12 November 2024

On-demand ride-sharing services change our travel behavior, which threatens the survival of taxi services. Motivated by this, this paper examines the impact of on-demand ride-sharing services on taxi services and how to achieve the coexistence of two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,151 Views
22 Pages

A Context-Aware, Computer-Vision-Based Approach for the Detection of Taxi Street-Hailing Scenes from Video Streams

  • Mahmoud Mastouri,
  • Zied Bouyahia,
  • Hedi Haddad,
  • Leila Horchani and
  • Nafaa Jabeur

16 May 2023

With the increasing deployment of autonomous taxis in different cities around the world, recent studies have stressed the importance of developing new methods, models and tools for intuitive human–autonomous taxis interactions (HATIs). Street h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,074 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2017

The emergence of complex datasets permeates versatile research disciplines leading to the necessity to develop methods for tackling complexity through finding the patterns inherent in datasets. The challenge lies in transforming the extracted pattern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,500 Views
11 Pages

24 July 2022

The goal of this study was to investigate the accountability of the technology acceptance model (TAM) for Uber taxi applications. As antecedents of usefulness, this study selected three elements: time information, price information, and driver inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,212 Views
25 Pages

19 June 2025

Motorbike taxis are widely used in Yaoundé and Douala, despite their association with heightened accident risks and relatively high fares. This research combines qualitative methods, including 38 semi-structured interviews and direct field obs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,696 Views
22 Pages

14 July 2019

The paper presents a simplified simulation model of the operation of a taxi system. The model retains the main features of a real taxi transportation system and despite its simplicity examines the system behavior in different conditions. It was shown...

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