Taxi Mileage

According to Schaller Consulting, the taxi ride in the USA in January 2006 averaged 5 mile with a wait of 5 min. In 2005, Schaller also stated that 39 per cent of the overall mileage of a New York taxi was taken up by passenger traffic. The PBS "Taxi Dreams" programme states that the mean number of kilometres travelled by a taxi in New York City on a 12-hour shifts is 180.

When you do the basic mathematics, a taxi that runs five nights a week would reach 46,800 mph in 52 consecutive working hours. Given that some driver's cabs are used for dual shifting, which means that two riders split the same car into two 12-hour shifting, an equivalent cabin used for dual shifting could cover 93,600 mile in a year or more.

According to Metro Taxi (metrotaxidenver.com), Denver's biggest taxi operator has 492 taxi cars on the street, and the company's taxi cars averaging 70,000 mph. Metro Taxi has switched 15 per cent of its cars to electric cars in order to cut down CO2 emission and lower the cost of fuels. Electric cars receive 50 to 55 mile per gal, and Metro Taxi estimated that transforming a taxi into a electric car is equal to transforming five non-commercial cars into electric cars.

Compute the number of changes of oil that a taxi rider declares on his income statement, and you can quantify the approximate mileage he drives each year, according to the Internal Revenue Service. IRS found that they could use cabin service vouchers to tune the actual mileage traveled. They learnt that even repairs invoices without mileage can be used to assess the number of kilometres travelled.

A 2001 Los Angeles taxi driver survey showed that the kilometres travelled can be calculated from fuel invoices, tyre sales, tune-ups and other routines. If, for example, 5 invoices with fifteen changes were filed at the 3,000 mile per bill, it would be 45,000 mile.

Verify the mileage that taxi driver put on their cars against the riding patterns of non-commercial driver. In the 2000 Our Nations Highway poll, the U.S. Department of Transportation found that males aged 35 to 54 years averaged 18,858 mph, while females in the same group averaged 11,464 mph.