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http://dx.doi.org/10.12815/kits.2020.19.6.163

A Study on the Analysis of the Weak Areas of Taxi Service during Late Night Time  

Song, Jaein (Research Institute of Science and Technology, Univ. of Hongik)
Kang, Min Hee (Dept. of Smart-city, Univ. of Hongik)
Cho, Yun Ji (Dept. of Smart-city, Univ. of Hongik)
Hwang, Kee yeon (Dept. of Urban Planning, Univ. of Hongik)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.19, no.6, 2020 , pp. 163-179 More about this Journal
Abstract
With the expansion of platform-based taxi service, mobility and convenience of users are getting better. However, due to profitability problem, marginalized areas in the supply of the service are expected to appear. As such, this study analyzed spatial marginalization of taxi service caused by imbalance in supply and demand during the night-time when public transportation service is suspended. According to hot-spot analysis of taxi, outskirt of a city and residential areas showed high vacancy and greater number of drop-offs compared to the number of pick-ups. On the contrary, they were confirmed low in the center and sub-centers of a city. Centrality analysis also showed a similar pattern with hot-spot analysis. Due to this, drivers may refuse to pick up a customer bound for an area with lower out-degree centrality compared to in-degree centrality as it might be difficult for the drivers to pick up another customer after dropping off the current customer. Thus, customers may need to wait for a taxi for a longer time. For this reason, improvement in spatial marginalization caused by mismatch of supply and demand is required. Also, the outcome of this study is expected to be utilized as a basic data.
Keywords
MaaS; Platform-based taxi; Weak area; Hot-spot; Degree Centrality;
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