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Vehicle for hire, the Glossary

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.^[1]

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Vehicles for hire

Air charter

Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft (i.e., chartering) as opposed to individual aircraft seats (i.e., purchasing a ticket through a traditional airline).

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Airport bus

An airport bus, or airport shuttle bus, alternatively simply airport shuttle or shuttle bus is a bus designed for transport of passengers to and from, or within airports.

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Auto rickshaw

An auto rickshaw is a motorized version of the pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw. Vehicle for hire and auto rickshaw are vehicles for hire.

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Barouche

A barouche is a large, open, four-wheeled carriage, both heavy and luxurious, drawn by two horses.

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Boda boda

Boda bodas are bicycles and motorcycle taxis commonly found in East Africa.

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Bolt (company)

Bolt is an Estonian mobility company that offers ride-hailing, micromobility rental, food and grocery delivery (via the Bolt Food app), and carsharing services.

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Car rental

A car rental, hire car or car hire agency is a company that rents automobiles for short periods of time to the public, generally ranging from a few hours to a few weeks.

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Carriage

A carriage is a two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle for passengers.

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Carsharing

Carsharing or car sharing (AU, NZ, CA, TH, & US) or car clubs (UK) is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour.

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Cycle rickshaw

The cycle rickshaw is a small-scale local means of transport. Vehicle for hire and cycle rickshaw are vehicles for hire.

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Demand-responsive transport

Demand-responsive transport (DRT), also known as demand-responsive transit, demand-responsive service, US National Transit Database Dial-a-Ride transit (sometimes DART), flexible transport services,.

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DiDi

Didi Chuxing Technology Company is a Chinese vehicle for hire company headquartered in Beijing with over 550 million users and tens of millions of drivers. Vehicle for hire and DiDi are vehicles for hire.

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Dollar van

A dollar van (also known as a jitney) is a privately-owned type of bus service used to carry passengers in the United States.

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Dolmuş

In Turkey and Northern Cyprus, a is a share taxi that runs set routes within and between cities.

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Fee

A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for rights or services.

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Fiacre (carriage)

A fiacre is a form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. Vehicle for hire and fiacre (carriage) are vehicles for hire.

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Grab Holdings

Grab Holdings Inc. is a Singaporean multinational technology company headquartered in One-North, Singapore.

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Hackney carriage

A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi) is a carriage or car for hire.

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Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Limousine

A limousine, or limo for short, is a large, chauffeur-driven luxury vehicle with a partition between the driver compartment and the passenger compartment which can be operated mechanically by hand or by a button electronically. Vehicle for hire and limousine are vehicles for hire.

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Los Angeles Department of Transportation

The Los Angeles Department of Transportation, commonly referred to as LADOT, is a municipal agency that oversees transportation planning, design, construction, maintenance and operations within the city of Los Angeles.

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Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News (MEN) is a regional daily newspaper covering Greater Manchester in North West England, founded in 1868.

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Marshrutka

Marshrutnoye taksi Valerija Marina, Igor Marin, Genovaitė Snuviškienė.

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Motorcycle taxi

A motorcycle taxi, or cart bike or bike taxi, is a licensed form of transport in some countries.

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Nanny van

The nanny van or school private light bus is a kind of school bus service in Hong Kong.

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Okada (motorcycle taxi)

An okada (also achaba, going, inaga) is a motorcycle taxi commonly used in Nigeria and other African countries.

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Ola Cabs

Ola Cabs (stylized as OLΛ) is an Indian transportation company that provides ride-hailing services and operates other business verticals such as financial services and cloud kitchens.

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Paratransit

Paratransit (the term used in North America) or Intermediate Public Transport (also known by other names such as community transport (UK)), is a type of transportation services that supplement fixed-route mass transit by providing individualized rides without fixed routes or timetables.

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Party bus

A party bus (also known as a party ride, limo bus, limousine bus, party van, or luxury bus) is a large motor vehicle usually derived from a conventional bus or coach, but modified and designed to carry 10 or more people for recreational purposes. Vehicle for hire and party bus are vehicles for hire.

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Passenger

A passenger is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward.

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Pet taxi

A pet taxi is a type of transportation taxi service that transports various pets.

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Private transport

Private transport (as opposed to public transport) is the personal or individual use of transportation which are not available for use by the general public, where in theory the user can decide freely on the time and route of transit ('choice rider' vs. 'captive rider'), using vehicles such as: private car, company car, bicycle, dicycle, self-balancing scooter, motorcycle, scooter, aircraft, boat, snowmobile, carriage, horse, etc., or recreational equipment such as roller skates, inline skates, sailboat, sailplane, skateboard etc.

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Public light bus

The public light bus (PLB) or minibus is a public transport service in Hong Kong.

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Public transport

Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.

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Pulled rickshaw

A pulled rickshaw (from Japanese) is a mode of human-powered transport by which a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two people. Vehicle for hire and pulled rickshaw are vehicles for hire.

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Ridesharing company

A ridesharing company, ride-hailing service, (the vehicles are called app-taxis or e-taxis) is a company that, via websites and mobile apps, matches passengers with drivers of vehicles for hire that, unlike taxis, cannot legally be hailed from the street.

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Sedan service

A sedan service is a transportation service that offers taxi-like rides in vehicles. Vehicle for hire and sedan service are vehicles for hire.

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A share taxi (also called shared taxi or taxibus, or jitney in the US) is a mode of transport which falls between a taxicab and a bus.

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Shared transport or shared mobility is a transportation system where travelers share a vehicle either simultaneously as a group (e.g. ride-sharing) or over time (e.g. carsharing or bike sharing) as personal rental, and in the process share the cost of the journey, thus purportedly creating a hybrid between private vehicle use and mass or public transport.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_for_hire

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