Browsing by Subject "Taxicabs"

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    • A mathematical approach and review of the modeling of taxi services 

      Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Salanova Grau, Josep Maria (2012)
      Conference report
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      This paper presents a mathematical model for the estimation of the key performance indicators of the taxi markets in urban areas. These key parameters are basically the demand and supply for taxi services, the waiting time ...

    • Agent based modeling for simulating taxi services[: case study in Barcelona] 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2015)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Taxi services account for a significant part of the daily trips in most of cities around the world. Due to the fact that most of the taxi markets are regulated by a central authority there is the need for developing tools ...

    • Agent based modeling for simulation of taxi services 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Mitsakis, Evangelos; Stamos, Iraklis (2013-12)
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      This paper presents an agent based model for simulating taxi services in urban areas. The three operation modes (hailing, stand and dispatching) are modeled and tested in the Sioux Falls network. Taxi models presented in ...

    • Agent-based simulation framework for the taxi sector modeling 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Tzenos, Panagiotis; Aifandopoulou, G. (Elsevier, 2018)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Taxi services account for a significant part of the daily trips in most cities around the world. These services are regulated by a central authority, which usually monitors the performance of the taxi services provision ...

    • Aggregated modeling of urban taxi services 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel; Amat Bertran, Carles (2014)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Various models have been developed for calculating the variables that characterize the taxi services in urban regions and defining the principal policy measures such as fleet size, fares or available operational modes. ...

    • An Electric taxi fleet charging system using second life electric car batteries simulation and economical approach 

      Canals Casals, Lluc; Amante García, Beatriz (Publicaciones de la Universidad de Valladolid, 2013)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      The industrial car manufacturers see in the high battery price an im-portant obstacle for an electric vehicle mass selling, thus mass production. There-fore, in order to find some cost relieves and better selling opportunities, ...

    • Anàlisi de la rendibilitat del taxi en funció de les activitats del territori en la ciutat de Barcelona 

      Baldó i Canut, Albert (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-09-25)
      Master thesis
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      Definint un viatge com el moviment entre un origen i un destí amb un propòsit determinat, les trajectòries dels taxis reflecteixen part de la mobilitat urbana general que té lloc en una xarxa de carreteres. Una anàlisi ...

    • Análisis y dimensionado del servicio de taxi en una ciudad. 

      Solar Santos, Delcy Mayerling (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-07-10)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      El taxi es un modo de transporte público que ofrece un servicio rápido, cómodo, y puerta a puerta a los usuarios. Se encarga de captar la demanda que por restricciones temporales no pueden satisfacer el transporte público ...

    • Estrategies òptimes d'explotació del servei del taxi en zones urbanes 

      Farré Mariné, Marc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-02-24)
      Minor thesis
      Open Access
      Al servei del taxi, a diferència del que passa als mitjans de transport col·lectiu, la major part de les decisions són preses de manera autònoma per cadascun dels usuaris i taxistes. D’una banda, cada usuari fixa l’hora ...

    • Estudi de tres simulacions d'una estació de taxis 

      Rodríguez García, Marc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-05-22)
      Master thesis
      Open Access

    • Estudi per a la millora de les operacions associades al taxi en la terminal de creuers del Port de Barcelona 

      Oriol Ferrero, Adrià (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-01)
      Bachelor thesis
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    • Expanding and Developing the Android Application for a Private Taxi Start-up 

      Viala, Adrien (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-07-25)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      El proyecto de fin de carrera q ue se presenta en este documento se ha realizado en una nueva empresa creada en Julio 2012 y basada en Paris que se llama SnapCar. SnapCar es una aplicación móvil conectada a una red ...

    • Informed versus non-informed taxi drivers: agent-based simulation framework for assessing their performance 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Moreira-Matas, Luis; Saadallah, Amal; Tzenos, Panagiotis; Aifadopoulou, Georgia; Chaniotakis, Emmanouil; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Transportation Research Board (TRB), 2018)
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      Data driven research is becoming a standard in Transport. Recent advances in the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning related areas enable the possibility of automatically generating highly-accurate predictive ...

    • Modeling framework for comparing taxi operational modes: case study in Barcelona 

      Salanova Grau, Josep Maria; Estrada Romeu, Miguel Ángel (Elsevier, 2018)
      Article
      Open Access
      This paper presents an aggregated mathematical model for the estimation of key performance indicators of the taxi market based on the system’s generalized cost function, which is calculated using the expected statistical ...

    • Publicidad a través de pantallas LCD en taxis de Barcelona. Plan de empresa 

      Sáez García, Judit (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-06)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      El presente proyecto presenta un plan de negocio de una empresa que tienen como principal actividad proporcionar un nuevo medio publicitario mediante el uso de pantallas LCD instaladas en los taxis de Barcelona. La idea ...

    • Revoluciones tecnológicas 

      Barceló Garcia, Miquel (2014-07)
      Article
      Open Access

    • Taxi time analysis and prediction with ADS-B data. A case study in Barcelona-El Prat airport. 

      Aicart I Font, Marc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-09-15)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   AENA
      This document contains a study about taxitime analysis in Barcelona-El Prat airport using ADS-B data. Section 1 shows how to decode ADS-B data and what useful information can be recovered to perform the taxitime analysis. ...

    • La Taxigeometria 

      Meiyu, Jin (2010-04-28)
      Audiovisual
      Open Access

    • Vehicle-based interactive management with multi-agent approach 

      Chen, Yee Ming; Wang, Bo-Yuan (School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa (ETSEIAT). Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2009-09)
      Article
      Open Access
      Under the energy crisis and global warming, mass transportation becomes more important than before. The disadvantages of mass transportation, plus the high flexibility and efficiency of taxi and with the revolution of ...