A Decision Model of Taxi Driver Based on Qualitative Analysis

Abstract

How should taxi drivers make decisions to maximize profits? This is a matter of concern. Profit efficiency of taxi drivers is evaluated based on the method of qualitative analysis in this paper. Taking profit, cost and time as the relevant factors of decision making, the mathematical model of profit efficiency is established, and the profit efficiency is calculated when the taxi driver chooses two different schemes. The preferable scheme is recommended to the driver. The real data were collected and plugged into the model to verify the reasonability of the model. Correlation analysis in SPSS was used to calculate partial correlation coefficient to measure the model's dependency on relevant factors. The results show that the model in the paper is effective and can be used to instruct the taxi driver to make decisions.