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A Driver Guidance System For Taxis In Singapore, Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shih-Fen Cheng, Meghna Lowalekar, Nicholas Wong, Rishikeshan Rajendram, Pradeep Varakantham, Nghia Troung Troung, Firmansyah Bin Abd Rahman
A Driver Guidance System For Taxis In Singapore, Shashi Shekhar Jha, Shih-Fen Cheng, Meghna Lowalekar, Nicholas Wong, Rishikeshan Rajendram, Pradeep Varakantham, Nghia Troung Troung, Firmansyah Bin Abd Rahman
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
Traditional taxi fleet operators world-over have been facing intense competitions from various ride-hailing services such as Uber and Grab.Based on our studies on the taxi industry in Singapore, we see that the emergence of Uber and Grab in the ride-hailing market has greatly impacted the taxi industry: the average daily taxi ridership for the past two years has been falling continuously, by close to 20% in total. In this work, we discuss how efficient real-time data analytics and large-scale multiagent optimization technology could help taxi drivers compete against more technologically advanced service platforms. Our system has been in field trial …