[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Rideshare Access

[Philip Barnes]

On Sat, 2020-10-31 at 12:08 +0100, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Am Sa., 31. Okt. 2020 um 11:36 Uhr schrieb Simon Poole <
> simon at poole.ch>:
> >   
> >     
> >   
> >   If there are actual legal differences between taxi and chauffeur
> >       access somewhere, we could use chauffeur or chauffeur-driven
> > as an
> >       access tag (better suggestions welcome).
> 
> 
> I can confirm that there are such differences, for example in Germany
> (Personenmietwagen vs. Taxi), in Italy (NCC vs. taxi),
> Legislation will probably vary across jurisdictions, e.g. in Germany,
> the Personenmietwagen is not part of the public transport, taxi is,
> in Italy, NCC is considered "servizio pubblico non di linea" (public
> service which is not line traffic).
> 

Much the same in the UK.

We have taxis (Hackneys) which are part of the public transport system,
can use bus lanes and do not need to be booked in advance.

Also private hire, which need to be booked in advance and have the same
access rights/restrictions on the public highway as a private car. For
some reason I cannot fathom, in London private hire are called
minicabs.

Uber and Lyft are legally private hire so whilst there may be a case
for access tags covering private hire there should not be a separate
tag. If different companies use different points at an airport that can
be covered by operator=*.

I would avoid the term chauffeur as it implies somebody who is part of
the staff for somebody who also has a butler and a nanny.

Phil (trigpoint)







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