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Vehicle for hire

A vehicle for hire is a vehicle

Vehicle

Vehicles, derived from the Latin word, vehiculum, are non-living means of transport. Most often they are manufactured , although some other means of transport which are not made by humans also may be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks....
providing shared transport

Shared transport

Shared transport is a term for describing a demand-driven vehicle sharing arrangement, in which passengers traveling the same route choose to travel together in the same vehicle, thereby creating a hybrid between ad hoc and public transport....
ation, which transports one or more passengers between locations of the passengers' choice (or close to it).

Vehicles for hire can be distinguished from conventional modes of public transportation in that vehicle for hire passengers are more or less free to choose their starting and ending locations (point of origin and destination), whereas in other modes, the passenger must choose from a limited selection of locations designated by the service provider.

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A vehicle for hire is a vehicle

Vehicle

Shared transport

Renting

Renting is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good or property owned by another person or company. The owner of the property may be referred to as the lessor and the party paying to use the property as the lessee or renter....
a vehicle for driving oneself (see car rental

Car rental

A car rental, rent-a-car or car hire agency is a company that rents automobiles for short periods of time for a fee. It is an elaborate form of a rental shop, organized in numerous local Branch#Organizationses, primarily located near airports or busy city areas and often complemented by a website allowing online Computer reser...
and carsharing

Carsharing

Carsharing is a model of car rental where people rent cars for short periods of time, often by the hour. They are attractive to customers who make only occasional use of a vehicle, as well as others who would like occasional access to a vehicle of a different type than they use day-to-day....
).

The most common vehicle for hire around the world is the taxicab

Taxicab

A taxicab, also taxi or cab, is a type of public transport for a single passenger, or small group of passengers, typically for a non-shared ride....
; other vehicles for hire include limousine

Limousine

A limousine is a luxury car sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur. The chassis of a limousine may have been extended by the manufacturer or by an independent coach builder....
s, party bus

Party bus

A party bus is a large motor vehicle designed to carry 10 or more people. Party buses are usually driving by chauffeurs.Party buses offer seating capacities from 10 to 50 passengers....
es, rickshaw

Rickshaw

Rickshaws are a mode of human-powered transport: a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two persons. The word rickshaw came from Asia where they were mainly used as means of transportation for the social elite....
s, auto rickshaw

Auto rickshaw

An auto rickshaw or tuk tuk is a motor vehicle that is one of the chief mode of transport across many parts of South Asia and East Asia, especially as a vehicle for hire....
s, motorcycle taxi

Motorcycle taxi

A motorcycle taxi is a licensed form of transport in some countries. Typically, they will carry one passenger , who sits on the pillion, behind the motorcycle operator....
s, velotaxis (pedicabs), horse-drawn carriage

Carriage

A carriage is a wheeled vehicle for people, usually horse-drawn. It is especially designed for private passenger use and for comfort or elegance, though some are also used to transport goods....
s (including hackney carriage

Hackney carriage

||-||-||}A hackney or hackney carriage is a carriage or automobile for hire. A livery carriage superior to the hackney was called a remise....
s and caleches), and water taxi

Water taxi

A water taxi or water bus is a boat used to provide public transport, usually but not always in an urban environment. Service may be scheduled with multiple stops, operating in a similar manner to a bus, or on demand to many locations, operating in a similar manner to a taxicab....
s. However, aircraft can also be chartered

Chartering

Chartering can refer to:* Charter airline* Chartering See also*Charter ...
(see Air charter

Air charter

Air charter is the business of renting an entire aircraft as opposed to individual aircraft seats . While the airlines specialize in selling transportation by the seat, air charter company focus on individual private aircraft and itineraries, urgent or time-sensitive freight, cargo, air ambulance and any other form of ad hoc air transportat...
).

Jitney

Jitney

Jitney may refer to:* share taxi* Jitney , written by August Wilson* Jitney * Nickel A small coin - a five cent piece in the US...
s, paratransit

Paratransit

Paratransit is an alternative mode of flexible passenger transportation that does not follow fixed routes or schedules. Typically vans or mini-buses are used to provide paratransit service, but also share taxis and jitneys are important providers....
, share taxis, demand responsive transport

Demand responsive transport

Demand responsive transport or demand responsive transit is "an advanced, user-oriented form of public transport characterised by flexible routing and scheduling of small/medium vehicles operating in shared-ride mode between pick-up and drop-off locations according to passengers needs"....
, public light bus

Public light bus

A Public light bus is a common Public transport mode of transport in Hong Kong. It mainly serves the area that Buses in Hong Kong cannot reach as efficiently....
es and shuttle buses are hybrids - halfway between taxicabs and bus

Bus

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. A bus can generally seat a maximum of anywhere from 8 to 200 passengers; many more passengers than a minivan....
es - and operate along somewhat fixed routes, with some flexibility in where passengers may be picked up or dropped off. Some of these routes may be very long, as in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
.

Shuttle services are also offered from many airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
s around the world: they take multiple independent passengers, like a bus, and usually run between two fixed areas (typically an airport

Airport

An airport is a location where aircraft such as Fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, and Non-rigid airship take off and land. Aircraft may also be stored or maintained at an airport....
and a downtown or hotel area), but will often pick up and drop off passengers anywhere reasonable within those areas, like a taxi. In Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, small van

Van

A van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people. It is usually a box-shaped vehicle on four wheels, about the same width and length as a large automobile, but taller and usually higher off the ground, also referred to as a light commercial vehicle or LCV....
s provide goods services within the territory.