Abstract
Abstract. Investigating the influential factors of the areas where people use taxis is a crucial step in understanding the taxi demand dynamics. In this study, we intend to analyze higher-paying taxi trips by putting forward an approach to explore a dataset of green taxi trips in New York City in January 2015 together with some demographic, housing, social and economic data. The final goal is to find out whether the chosen factors are statistically significant to be considered as potential driving forces of demand location for trips with a higher-paid fare. Since airports are major attracting sources for taxi travels, all the steps are taken separately for three scenarios that the trip drop-offs are in 1) LaGuardia Airport, 2) John F Kennedy Airport or 3) other areas. First, the spatial pick-up distribution of these higher-paying trips is mapped to enable visual comparison of the urban movement patterns. Then, taking into account the pick-up density as the response variable, the densities of: foreign-born’s population, number of houses with no vehicles, the private wage and salary workers’ population, the government workers’ population and the self-employed workers’ population in own not incorporate business were considered as the explanatory variables. These variables were examined to find important factors affecting the demand in each neighborhood and different results in each of the three scenarios were discussed. This study gives a better insight into discovering driving factors of higher-paid taxi trips when considering airports as destinations which attract travels with potentially different characteristics.
Highlights
Recent technological advancements in sensors and GPS devices have created an unprecedented opportunity to capture and store huge volumes of data from various sources
Yellow taxis are the first and main part of the fleet allowed to pick passengers up and drop them off all over the New York City (NYC) but as the yellow taxi drivers tended to pick up passengers in Manhattan below 96th Street and the two airports, the Taxi and Limousine Commission introduced green taxis to serve the demand and balance the supply coverage
Considering airport trips as separate major kind of trips which the driving factors of the trips related to them have been of less attention in the literature, this study aims to address and fill in these gaps
Summary
Recent technological advancements in sensors and GPS devices have created an unprecedented opportunity to capture and store huge volumes of data from various sources. The data of GPS-equipped taxis can give us a clearer point of view on the mobility of people to help in decision-makers have a more detailed and more precise view in the area of city planning These decisions could be applied in traffic management, provision of new infrastructure or to provide both taxi drivers and citizens with information on where to pick up passengers or find taxis. Yellow taxis are the first and main part of the fleet allowed to pick passengers up and drop them off all over the NYC but as the yellow taxi drivers tended to pick up passengers in Manhattan below 96th Street and the two airports, the Taxi and Limousine Commission introduced green taxis to serve the demand and balance the supply coverage These taxis are only allowed to pick people above East 96th Street and West
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Free) 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call
