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Article: Nonlinear pricing of taxi services

TitleNonlinear pricing of taxi services
Authors
KeywordsMarket Equilibrium
Nonlinear Pricing
Pareto-Improving
Taxi Service
Issue Date2010
PublisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/tra
Citation
Transportation Research Part A: Policy And Practice, 2010, v. 44 n. 5, p. 337-348 How to Cite?
AbstractThis paper examines the effects of nonlinear fare structures in taxi markets using an extended taxi model with an explicit consideration of perceived profitability. The expected profit, defined as the profit per unit time (inclusive of both occupied and vacant taxi times), that a taxi driver expects to receive from picking up a customer in a particular zone or location, has great impact on the taxi driver's choice of location in the search for customers. The fare structure directly governs the profitability of taxi rides of different distances originating from different locations. With these explicit considerations, the extended model is intended to look into the market effects of adopting a nonlinear fare structure with declining incremental charges. The proposed nonlinear fare structure could help restore a level-playing field for taxi operators whose businesses have been affected by some taxi drivers who resort to practices such as offering fare discounts or accepting requests for discounted fares from passengers for long-haul trips. Analysis of sensitivity of social welfare and profit gain as well as taxi/customer wait/search times is conducted with respect to the parameters in the nonlinear fare structure for the Hong Kong taxi market, and Pareto-improving nonlinear fare amendments are identified that neither disadvantage any customer nor reduce the taxi operators' profits. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/150524
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 6.3
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.182
ISI Accession Number ID
Funding AgencyGrant Number
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), ChinaRGC HKUST 6212/07E
University of Hong Kong
Funding Information:

The authors wish to express their thanks to the Editor-in-Chief and two anonymous reviewers, whose useful comments have improved the exposition of the paper. The research described in this paper was substantially supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), China (Project No. RGC HKUST 6212/07E) and an outstanding researcher award from the University of Hong Kong.

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dc.contributor.authorWong, KIen_US
dc.contributor.authorWong, SCen_US
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dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.identifier.citationTransportation Research Part A: Policy And Practice, 2010, v. 44 n. 5, p. 337-348en_US
dc.identifier.issn0965-8564en_US
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dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the effects of nonlinear fare structures in taxi markets using an extended taxi model with an explicit consideration of perceived profitability. The expected profit, defined as the profit per unit time (inclusive of both occupied and vacant taxi times), that a taxi driver expects to receive from picking up a customer in a particular zone or location, has great impact on the taxi driver's choice of location in the search for customers. The fare structure directly governs the profitability of taxi rides of different distances originating from different locations. With these explicit considerations, the extended model is intended to look into the market effects of adopting a nonlinear fare structure with declining incremental charges. The proposed nonlinear fare structure could help restore a level-playing field for taxi operators whose businesses have been affected by some taxi drivers who resort to practices such as offering fare discounts or accepting requests for discounted fares from passengers for long-haul trips. Analysis of sensitivity of social welfare and profit gain as well as taxi/customer wait/search times is conducted with respect to the parameters in the nonlinear fare structure for the Hong Kong taxi market, and Pareto-improving nonlinear fare amendments are identified that neither disadvantage any customer nor reduce the taxi operators' profits. © 2010 Elsevier Ltd.en_US
dc.languageengen_US
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dc.subjectMarket Equilibriumen_US
dc.subjectNonlinear Pricingen_US
dc.subjectPareto-Improvingen_US
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dc.titleNonlinear pricing of taxi servicesen_US
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