Reducing the Environmental Impact of Taxi Operation: the Taxi-sharing Use Case

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2012

Authors

Pedro d'Orey (Author) FCUP; Ricardo Fernandes (Author) FCUP; Michel Ferreira (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 2012 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ITS TELECOMMUNICATIONS (ITST-2012)

Pages: 313-317

12th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITST)

Taipei, TAIWAN, NOV 05-08, 2012

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-005-42N

DOI: 10.1109/itst.2012.6425191

Abstract (EN): Considering the fast development of urban areas and the increasing environmental awareness, we focus in this paper on a taxi-sharing system for improving the efficiency of public transport. In particular, we present a realistic and largescale evaluation of the environmental impact of this system. The proposed method improves the efficiency of this form of public transport by determining, on the fly, the best match between taxi user requests, which leads to a reduction of the total and vacant travel distance. Our results show important reductions of CO2 emissions with full deployment of the system, reaching 9% under a higher demand scenario.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 5