A successful public transportation system needs seamless and diversified feeder services. Taxi is one of good choices to serve the first and last mile services. In Taiwan, 54 thousand taxis, which is around 60% of total amount of taxi fleet, is centralized in Taipei Metropolitan area. There are more than 1.3 million trips per day by taxi and the market share close to 10% in the whole trips. To increase higher service quality and dispatching efficiency, an innovative dispatch platform named "Cloud Taxi" is developed. This paper presents main functions of the cloud taxi, namely driver application, passenger application, cloud dispatch database and application program interfaces (API) for management, operation and evaluation purposes. Some interesting findings and future research directions are also summarized based on field trials of ten scenarios applying cloud taxi functions.
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