Taxis of India

[1] In India, most taxicabs, especially those in Chennai Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, have distinctive black and yellow liveries with the bottom half painted black and upper half painted yellow with limited nos.

In Chennai, most taxis are looking like a private owner cars but there is a yellow plated with black numbers and text for identification.

8297282979 Taxis and all other commercial vehicles have a yellow number plate, so charging taxes and toll in highways is easier for the officials.

To hail a taxicab, you normally just wait on the street or go to locations called taxi stands.

Taxis and all other commercial vehicles have a yellow number plate, so charging taxes and toll in highways is easier for the officials.

In posher areas like Noida and Gurgaon auto rickshaws are banned thus giving the taxis a monopoly.

Chandigarh also has a well established system of modern radio cabs using cars like Tata Indigo/Indigo Marina, Fiat Siena and Maruti Esteem.

During off peak hours, they ply just like the regular taxis, can be hailed anywhere on the roads, and passengers are charged by the meter.

But in order to bridge the gap between demand and supply, during peak hours, several of them operate as Shared Taxis, taking a full cab load of passengers to a more or less common destination.

These taxis are very popular because of the lack of waiting time, faster journey speeds, greater comfort and absence of the crush loads of peak hour commuter traffic in buses and trains.

The black and yellow Fiat taxis in Mumbai, are integral part of the city's heritage and have been depicted in numerous Bollywood movies.

Recently, the police revealed that; it is required by law that the driver of an unengaged taxi take you to where you want to go, distance and time regardless.

The act of calling the police on your cell phone usually makes the driver comply with your request to be taken to your destination.

It has been generally observed that online booking of car and taxi operations are on a macro-level, with multi-national size of entrepreneurship.

[7][8][9] In 1998, the Supreme Court of India published a Directive that specified the date of April, 2001 as deadline to replace or convert all buses, three-wheelers and taxis in Delhi to compressed natural gas.