2. In referring to Appendix B‚ the “Excerpt from Taxi Tales”‚ discuss race‚ ethnicity and culture in Singapore. Race‚ ethnicity and culture are independent of one another. Even if ‘race’ is defined to be encoded (i.e. genetic)‚ culture (how one lives and the practices involved) isn’t. The concept of race is rooted in biological classification and more of ‘attributions’. Ethnicity on the other hand emphasis more on culture rather than biology and incorporates the idea of social grouping and their
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Case Study: Supershuttle New York (Blue Van) By Putri Ayu Diah Chandra Puspita PMM Case Study 27th August 2011 Word count: 1‚990 (excluding bibliography) Table of Contents 1. Table of Contents 1. 2. 3. Introduction – importance of customer loyalty to a company.......................... 3 Analysis for operations management of Supershuttle ....................................... 4 Data and information needed to support management decision for Supershuttle operations management ..........
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Factors associated with high levels of accidents by Motorcycle taxi drivers Godwin Asiimwe Bachelor of Statistics‚ Msc. Statistics (Makerere University) Assistant Lecturer‚ Department of Management Science Makerere University Business School Mbaga Tuzinde Bsc. Quantitative Economics‚ Msc. Quantitative Economics (Makerere University) Assistant Lecturer‚ Department of Management Science Makerere University Business School Humphrey Anjoga Bsc. Business Computing‚ Msc. Information Technology
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1. Bhalla runs a small taxi service with just 2 cars initially and his family members and friends being his regular customers. Off late the demand for his taxi has increased which resulted due to advertisement in yellow pages and in the dailies. To deal with the increase in business Bhalla leased another luxury car and hired one more additional driver above an existing driver. During the first few days of his business he kept a written record of all his transactions. But as the number of transactions
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Design and Implementation of a Location-Based Messaging System Patrick S. Chen‚ Janus Hsu‚ Dept. of Information Management‚ Tatung University‚ 40 Zhongshan North Road‚ 3rd Section Taipei 104‚ Taiwan (R.O.C.) chenps@ttu.edu.tw‚ kobe0621@hotmail.com ABSTRACT A messaging system supporting inter-vehicular communication is implemented to enable management of a caravan. With the help of positioning function and ad hoc network‚ important messages can be sent to vehicles in the caravan to regulate
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Question 5 The main benefits to using integrated marketing communications or IMC is that it is essential and cost effective the taxi company. Several shifts in the advertising and media industry have caused IMC to develop into a primary strategy for marketers: • From media advertising to multiple forms of communication. • From mass media to more specialized (niche) media‚ which are centred on specific target audiences. • From a manufacturer-dominated market to a retailer-dominated‚ consumer-controlled
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Executive Summary City Taxi is a Kathmandu‚ Nepal based company‚ whose mission is to provide reliable‚ timely‚ and safe cab services by using complete‚ in-car credit and debit card access‚ along with computer-aided dispatch. City Taxi will provide complete taxi cab services using the latest equipment and technology to facilitate the travel of individuals in and around the Kathmandu-Nepalese terriotry. The company’s products and services show that we are an innovative‚ forward thinking company that
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major challengers that Uber has had to face would be the long-standing taxi industry. “Undisrupted since the early 20th century”‚ the taxi industry was dominating the car-for-hire sector of the market (Posen‚ 2015‚ p.405). When taxi service was shifting from the hors-drawn carriage to automobiles‚ there was a huge expansion in an industry that was not very well regulated‚ so as a result there was an “over-populated” supply of taxis which often lead to territorial wars over passengers (Posen‚ 2015‚ p
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research conducted that shows how effective the dispatch system is. The existing taxi dispatch system that taxi operators in Singapore use to handle current bookings was studied. This dispatch system adopts the Global Positioning System (GPS) and is based on the nearest-coordinate method: the taxi assigned for each booking is the one with the shortest‚ direct‚ straight-line distance to the customer location. However‚ the taxi assigned under this system often is not capable of reaching the customer in
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MAGUIRE‚ E. A.‚ GADIAN‚ D. G.‚ JOHNSRUDE‚ I. S.‚ GOOD‚ C. D.‚ ASHBURNER‚ J.‚ FRACKOWIAK‚ R.S. & FRITH‚ C. D. (2000) Navigation-Related Structural Changes in the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers. Background Information The hippocampus is a brain structure that is involved with memory‚ spatial awareness and navigation. For memory‚ the hippocampus is linked to the conversion of information from short-term memory to more permanent memory. From studying a man known as HM‚ we know that the impact of
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