Car Design News
Huddersfield University Show 2005
David Boyd presented a shared taxi concept. The project aim was to optimise road transportation to be more efficient in and around urban environments, as the most common occupancy in a car or taxi is 1.5 people. It also looked at improving lifestyles to attract people to use taxi sharing as an alternative to the car for commuting. The taxi's package was designed around London cabs, but had product influences which resulted in optimizing the interior space. The cab is divided into four individual spaces, the driver cabin, and large occupancy cabin (LOC) and two small occupancy cabins (SOC). Entrance to the LOC is on the pavement side and caters for wheelchair access and two-occupant travel with large luggage space. The rear access is the SOC which caters for one person with hand luggage space. It also has grab bars, intercoms along side interior climate controls and chip and PIN payment.