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What? Private automobiles have to travel to their pickup point too. You just forgot about this because they usually do so at the end of the previous trip.
by galdosdi 10y ago
What? Private automobiles have to travel to their pickup point too. You just forgot about this because they usually do so at the end of the previous trip.
- ajmurmann 10y agoIf you count it like that you get at least four trips for turf car service where you have two for the private car. That's not counting potentially cruising around in areas where you have a higher likelihood of finding customers but no parking.
- galdosdi 10y agoYes, cruising around looking for customers is EXACTLY what you're counting when you include a "return trip" extra for a taxi. If they find another customer right after dropping off the prior then there are zero wasted miles. Taxis use up more road spacetime the more time they spend looking for a customer, while private cars use up more road spacetime the more time they spend parked or looking for parking. Realistically, in dense places, private cars spend a lot of time looking for parking, and almost all of their lives parked, but cabs are occupied more often than not. On the other hand in sufficiently undense places, a cab would have to spend a lot of time looking for passengers while private cars never have to look for parking and have off-street parking -- but these kinds of places have low traffic anyway, so who cares? In the places where traffic is actually a pain, cabs improve it.