shared taxi

English

Noun

shared taxi (plural shared taxis)

  1. A vehicle for hire, typically smaller than a bus, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, departing when all seats are filled.
    • 1986, D. Coombe et al., “The Role of Paratransit”, in Moving People in Tomorrow's World..., page 115:
      In contrast to the mass transit role of the servis taxis in Amman, the shared taxis in Bahrain offered a specialised supplement to the main transport services. Only about 1.5% of all person trips per day were made in 1981 by shared taxi, and they carried only about a quarter as many passengers as the scheduled bus services...

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Hyponyms

  • baht bus (pickup shared taxi in SE Asian contexts)
  • dollar van (van or minibus shared taxi in US contexts)
  • marshrutka (minibus shared taxi in former Soviet contexts)
  • matatu, mathree (minivan shared gypsy cab in East African contexts)
  • maxicab (minibus shared taxi in Hong Kong)
  • songthaew (pickup shared taxi in SE Asian contexts)
  • taxibus (minibus shared taxi)
  • tro tro (minibus shared taxi in Ghanan contexts)
  • UV Express (Philippine shared taxi service)

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