Microsoft researchers prove that taxi drivers know city streets better than most online maps–and are starting to bring that hard-earned know-how to you. They’d better hurry. A new research project ...
As the Knowledge of London — the notoriously burdensome test for cab drivers to memorise some 25,000 streets across Greater London — marks its 160th birthday (it was indeed created in 1865), TfL ...
The introduction of a wider local "knowledge" test in part of Northamptonshire that taxi drivers warn could force them out of the profession has been delayed. North Northamptonshire Council approved ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Taxi drivers and operators say Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky's new "Knowledge of Melbourne" test is little more than a stunt to ...
Hundreds of Londoners have signed up to become black taxi drivers after being given the chance to study “The Knowledge” for free. The initiative is described as the biggest drive to boost the ...
The requirements of a knowledge test which caused controversy after 99 percent of the participants failed have been amended, giving aspiring taxi drivers taking the exam four times as many chances to ...
Among other potential changes could be a merging of the city's two taxi zones. Aberdeen International Airport is zoned separately to the rest of the city, with taxi drivers only p ...
Taxi drivers are protesting about a shake-up of the tests which ensure they have "the knowledge". Until now, aspiring cabbies have been quizzed by council officials on their ability to find their way ...
Almost 99 per cent of Victoria's taxi drivers have been stumped by the industry's new knowledge test, which was introduced just six months ago. The Taxi Services Commission said 444 prospective and ...
Patric McGuinness is the first to admit that his past is checkered. His childhood was marred by an abusive father. He got involved with gangs, with drugs. He spent 15 years in prison. He hurt a lot of ...
As traffic congestions become more frequent and commuters spend more time on the road, an Egyptian bookstore chain launched an initiative that allows cab passengers to read on their way to work or ...
The change will see one zone across the whole unitary authority of North Northamptonshire The introduction of a wider local "knowledge" test in part of Northamptonshire that taxi drivers warn could ...