Description
Book SynopsisThe vehicle for hire (VFH) market broadly comprising taxis, limousines, and app-based transport has faced multiple and significant changes over the years, with the period since 2010 a time of major upheaval. This book documents the development of the market over time, examining its regulation and control structures, exploring its history, trends, and market theories, and discussing how these are both promoted and challenged by the changes affecting the sector.
This book reviews recent developments in the VFH industry, from the influx of new market entrants and the emergence of app-based services to their widespread use, comparing international markets and their regulation, and draws on a series of case studies in key locations in North America, Europe, and Asia. It establishes and details economic, market, social, and political theory affecting the VFH industry and devotes its second half to the definition and emergence of transport typologies and markets in which the secto
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1: Defining the Taxi and For Hire Industry, Chapter 2: The Current Market, Chapter 3: Taxis in Culture, Chapter 4: Socio-Economic and Political Theories, Chapter 5: Industry Structure, Chapter 6: Societal Change, Public and Passenger Perspectives, Chapter 7: Taxi Company and Driver Perspectives, Chapter 8: Regulator Perspectives, Chapter 9: Perspectives of Transportation Network Companies, Chapter 10: Future Planning, Regulation, and Rebirth, Chapter 11: Review and Conclusions, the Taxi as an Intuitive and Recurring Mode, Glossary, Index
