This document provides an overview and introduction to the publication "Taxi 07: Roads Forward" which explores ways to improve New York City's taxi system. The publication examines how taxis can best function as part of New York's public spaces and how they can be regulated to provide excellent transportation for all passengers, industry stakeholders, and the city. It approaches taxis as a system of interactions between people, vehicles, and the city, and considers feasible changes over the next ten years that could incrementally improve taxi services.

12. TAXI 07
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FORWARDDesign Trust for Public Space
http://www.designtrust.org/
New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission
http://www.nyc.gov/tlc
ISBN 978-0-9777175-1-4
Taxi 07: Roads FoRwaRd IS A SelecTIve
guIDe TO The cuRRenT neW YORk cITY TAXI
SYSTem AnD An eXplORATIOn OF WAYS
The cITY’S TAXI SeRvIceS mIghT be ImpROveD.
A joint project of the Design Trust for Public Space and the New York City
Taxi & Limousine Commission, Taxi 07: Roads Forward asks, how can the taxi
best function as a vital part of New York’s public realm? And how can taxis
be optimally regulated to provide an excellent transportation service for all
passengers, as well as industry stakeholders and the city at large?
Taxi 07: Roads Forward accepts a fundamental premise: that New York’s taxi
services form a system—a network of interactions between people, vehicles,
and the city itself. The focus of this publication is on understanding those
interactions, and then considering what feasible, cost-effective, incremental
changes might improve taxi services over the next ten years.
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