For-Hire Vehicle
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A For-Hire Vehicle is a vehicle that provides fee-based private transport.
- Context:
- It can (typically) offer services through a Ridesharing Company.
- It can (often) offer some flexibility in the point of origin and/or destination, unlike public transport.
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- Example(s):
- a Taxi, such taxicabs, pulled rickshaws, or motorcycle taxis.
- A Ridesharing Vehicle, by a ridesharing company.
- A Limousine, Party Bus.
- fiacres, and caleches), pet taxis, water taxis, and air charters.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Rented Vehicle.
- a Privately-Owned Vehicle (bike, motorbike, car, boat, plane).
- a Public Transport Vehicle.
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- See: Private Transport, Shared Transport, Fee, Passenger, Carsharing.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_for_hire Retrieved:2023-5-27.
- A vehicle for hire is a vehicle providing private transport or shared transport for a fee, in which passengers are generally free to choose their points or approximate points of origin and destination, unlike public transport, and which they do not drive themselves, as in car rental and carsharing. They may be offered via a ridesharing company.
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_for_hire#Vehicles Retrieved:2023-5-27.
- Vehicles for hire include taxicabs pulled rickshaws, cycle rickshaws, auto rickshaws, motorcycle taxis, Zémidjans, okadas, boda bodas, sedan services, limousines, party buses, carriages (including hackney carriages, fiacres, and caleches), pet taxis, water taxis, and air charters. Share taxis, paratransit, dollar vans, marshrutkas, dolmuş, nanny vans, demand responsive transport, public light buses, and airport buses operate along fixed routes, but offer some flexibility in the point of origin and/or destination.