Ride Logistics

The New New Thing

Most cars are used only 1 hour per day

And carry only 1 person for 90% of the trips they do undertake

inefficient and unnecessary

Traffic congestion shows this to be both

A more sensible use of such resources would be to allow people to make use of vehicles

on a demand responsive basis

meaning when *you* want

and to rationalise this demand via the construct of a futures exchange

Imagine if you could make use of the "river of empty seats" available each

day in the transport fleet of every city?

And you could do it safely and conveniently

That you could buy a subscription per month for a certain value

and use that value to buy a seat-trip in taxis

private cars (where the drivers have the appropriate licences)

buses and even light transit systems

That the most important aspect of the system is that you could buy

hundreds of seat-trips ahead of time

thus allowing the "transport system" to automatically adapt to intentions

of the populace

reacting in real-time to the real transport needs of the citizenry

thus permitting vehicles to be placed where they are needed before

they are needed

and eliminating the need for buses to drive around empty

or for taxi drivers to ply for trade

using the spare capacity in cars, vans, taxis and buses to facilitate

deliveries in quieter periods

With such a system it would then be possible to

reduce or eliminate traffic congestion

reduce overall fuel use

integrate all our land, air and sea based-transport systems

offer to anyone the same choices of travel as a car owner

without reducing anyone's freedom

Hence Texxi

The Transit Exchange for the XXI Century

MOBILE DEVICE+

FUTURES EXCHANGE+

GENETIC ALGORITHMS+

SOCIAL NETWORK(INTENTION CONTAGION MASK)

+AUTOMATIC DEPENDENT SURVEILLANCE (ADS-B)

FOR GROUND TRANSPORTATION

It does a hell of a lot more than just getting you a cab home from the

nightclub by SMS

although that was the first application demonstrated

It is designed to allow for the allocation, market pricing and real-

time trading of roadspacetime

on a per-seat basis

thus removing impediments to mobility for all segments of the population

the means to summon a ride in a vehicle is one detail in a complex system

the magic comes in the dynamic optimisation and the trading of seat trips

Thank you

ops@texxi.com

Presentations available at

http://www.slideshare.net/texxi

Eric Masaba