Save Money And Protect The Environment: Share A Cab Ride With CabEasy.com !
CabEasy launches today to allow millions of taxi passenger to save money while being environmentally friendly.
CabEasy helps taxi users create future cab rides with a simple 3 step process (where from, where to, when), and publishes them to the web and to social networks. The service is free and available literally in every city in the world. CabEasy helps future passengers find rides to and from airports, offices, malls, train stations – any place they might need transport to: they simply browse the map to find taxi rides matching their needs.
Not only does CabEasy.com save passengers money by sharing cab rides, it helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing taxi journeys. And of course, it’s also a great way to meet people that live or work in your neighborhood.
Some facts and figures …
In New York City, there are over 13,000 Yellow Cabs and about 40,000 for-hire cars. Yellow Cabs carry 240 million passengers over 800 million miles every year. The famous Manhattan cab Ford Crown Victoria rides 13 m.p.g. on average, which represents a consumption of 55 million gallons of fuel every year for the entire yellow cab fleet. Each Crown Victoria releases on average 150,000 pounds of CO2 each year, and the entire yellow cab fleet about 1.7 billion pounds of CO2. Yellow cabs are a 1.8 billion USD a year industry.
There are over 15,000 taxis in Paris representing 3 billion euros in yearly revenues (about 4.5 billions USD). An average taxi has 13 clients a day, which represents 200,000 cab rides in Paris in total every single day, 73 million rides a year.
To name a few other cities, in Singapore, there are over 24,000 taxis, and there are 20,000 Black Cabs in London.
Related news and sources
PBS Taxidreams
State of the NYC Taxi, 2006
The New York City Taxicab Factbook, 2006
Inventory of New York City Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Judge Blocks Hybrid Taxi Requirement
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