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Talk: Taxi Technology

1:22 AM EDT on March 17, 2007

The American Planning Association New York Metro Chapter's Transportation Committee presents ...

Taxi Technology

A talk by Gary Roth of the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission

By the end of the year, all of NYC's 13,000 yellow cabs must accept credit cards and also contain a GPS unit. In order to ensure that the technology is consistent across the fleet, the TLC signed a contract with four vendors to supply the necessary equipment and services. After installation, unprecedented information will be harvested from this $1.8-billion industry, serving about 240 million passengers a year.

Aaron Donovan
Before he began blogging about land use and transportation, Aaron Donovan wrote The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual fundraising appeal for three years and earned a master's degree in urban planning from Columbia. Since then, he has worked for nonprofit organizations devoted to New York City economic development. He lives and works in the Financial District, and sees New York's pre-automobile built form as an asset that makes New York unique in the United States, and as a strategic advantage that should be capitalized upon.

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