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Results through Research Driving taxis into mainstream transport

Results through Research Driving taxis into mainstream transport. James M Cooper Taxi Studies Group, Edinburgh Napier University and Taxi Research Network. Transport Research. Impossible to suggest a single realm of academic or commercial enquiry that addresses transport alone.

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Results through Research Driving taxis into mainstream transport

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  1. Results through ResearchDriving taxis into mainstream transport James M Cooper Taxi Studies Group, Edinburgh Napier University and Taxi Research Network

  2. Transport Research • Impossible to suggest a single realm of academic or commercial enquiry that addresses transport alone. • Transport covers social, economic, infrastructural, engineering, psychological, and more, disciplinary areas. • BUT research is relevant and appropriate to transport as a method of achieving benefits in each of the disciplines, to the public, reducing costs etc. • This has led to a good number of theme specific institutes, consultants, and government departmental research

  3. Researching taxis? • Significance of taxis to mobility • Night time transport • Trip chaining, first and last miles • Social inclusion • Congestion • Pollution

  4. Taxi Research! • Research supports practice, practice supports research • Research applications are critical to the development of the industry • To do so, research needs to understand the issues faced by the industry • To achieve a full understanding, dialogue is required

  5. Quo Tardis? • Regulatory reform? • Technologies in taxicabs • Jurisdictions, boundaries, empty taxis • Airports' role and impact in taxi supply • Vehicle air quality • Night time economies • Social inclusion and accessible transport

  6. Discuss! • Dialogue as a prerequisite • Forum as a start • Networks and common understandings • Transfer and application • Never stop learning, never stop questioning www.iatr.org www.taxiresearch.net

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