An Optimized and Efficient Approach for Taxi Management on Critical Days

Abstract

The use of cabs is increasing day by day, especially in the metropolitan cities, and in a country like India where majority of the public uses cabs for their movement, it is necessary to get a cab at the right time. India, also known as Land of Festivals is an amalgamation of different religions, languages, cultures and beliefs which ensures there is a festival being celebrated in one or the other parts of the country almost every week. Moreover, India, the World's second most populous country, has become a global market where not only technical events, but also various fairs, concerts and huge gatherings are organized frequently. Most of the cab companies use algorithms to share the cabs, uses GPS to get the cab in less time according to the customer’s location. Thus, on that particular day it becomes much more difficult to even get a cab not even in time. In this paper, we are focusing on such critical days which consists of two parts: firstly The general use of cab in that particular area on that day of the week. Secondly: The estimated additional load(calculated using the previous data or predicted) that needs to be managed in that area on such critical days which the previous system fails to manage.