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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Taxi-Driver Shifts Using Big Trace Data

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
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.
Luling Cheng   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Path optimization of taxi carpooling. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
The problem that passengers are hard to take taxis while empty driving rate is high widely exists under the traditional taxi operation mode. The implementation of taxi carpooling mode can alleviate the problem in a certain extent.
Changxi Ma, Ruichun He, Wei Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of human mobility patterns: utilizing taxi and mobile (SafeGraph) data to investigate neighbourhood-scale mobility in New York City

open access: yesAnnals of GIS
Numerous researchers have utilized GPS-enabled vehicle data and SafeGraph mobility data to analyse human movements. However, the comparison of their ability to capture human mobility remains unexplored.
Yuqin Jiang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Emission Factors for a Taxi Fleet Operating on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) as a Function of Speed and Road Slope

open access: yesFrontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 2018
Real-driving emissions of NOx, CO, and THC, as well as fuel consumption (FC) were studied from 18 liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fueled taxis operating in a metropolitan road network.
Georgios Papadopoulos   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial Variation of Taxi Demand Using GPS Trajectories and POI Data

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Transportation, 2020
Taxi as a door-to-door, all-weather way of travel is an important part of the urban transportation system. A fundamental understanding of temporal-spatial variation and its related influential factors are essential for taxi regulation and urban planning.
Xinmin Liu, Lu Sun, Qiuxia Sun, Ge Gao
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Spatiotemporal Variations of Ridership by Multiple Taxi Services

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Recent years have seen the big growth of app-based taxi services by not only competing for rides with street-hailing taxi services but also generating new taxi rides. Moreover, the innovation in dynamic pricing also makes it competitive in both passenger
Wenbo Zhang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An entropy-based measurement for understanding origin-destination trip distributions: a case study of New York City taxis

open access: yesBig Earth Data
A comprehensive understanding of human mobility patterns in urban areas is essential for urban development and transportation planning. In this study, we create entropy-based measurements to capture the geographical distribution diversity of trip origins
Yuqin Jiang, Yihong Yuan, Su Yeon Han
doaj   +1 more source

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