The Taxicab: An Urban Transportation Survivor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807896693)

The authors trace the evolution of the taxi from the early horse-drawn European vehicles to the futuristic paratransit" vehicles of today, relating the development of mass transit to the taxi and showing how both forms of transportation changed in response to alterations in city and urban life. They discuss the economics, innovative services, and future of the taxi and maintain that this service has the potential to alleviate some of the current problems of urban transportation."

Originally published in 1982.

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Author: Gorman Gilbert, Robert E. Samuels
ISBN-10: 0807896691
ISBN-13: 9780807896693
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2011
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d