A fleet of just 20 thousand taxibuses, introduced to a major city such as Paris, New York or London, will provide the city with an astounding 8 million passenger journey during each 24 hour period. We can compare this to London's 20 thousand licensed taxi cabs which transport around 0.5 million passengers during the same period, or London's 6 thousand buses which carry a total of 4 million passengers each day (i buses that have a capacity of around 80 people). Another point of comparison is the London Underground which provides 2.5 million passenger journeys every day
Taxibus is a UK firm.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Taxibus
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2 comments:
Fascinating. Troubling though the viability of the whole scheme requires the implementation of a model which, for example, in London requires 20,000 taxibuses from the outset.
ah ... just read on to the very end to read " One of th virtues of IGT is that it can grow organically, and it is therefore possible t implement a very small fleet of taxibuses to start with, serving a specific localised area within a city" ... now I understand!
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