System for hiring taxi, handy terminal for doing the same, and method of doing the same

摘要

A system for hiring a taxi is comprised of a handy terminal, a receiver equipped in a taxi, and a calculator. The handy terminal has functions of detecting a current position of itself through GPS (Global Positioning System), and transmitting a request to the receiver of a taxi located in the vicinity of the handy terminal that the taxi comes to the handy terminal. The calculator calculates an arrival time at which the taxi is expected to arrive at the handy terminal, based on the current position of the handy terminal and a current position of the taxi.