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Cab and omnibus service

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• Carriages and carts
• Carriers
• Communication and traffic
• Transportation
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• Taxicabs
• Bus lines
• Horse-drawn omnibuses

• Cab and omnibus service -- England
• Cab and omnibus service -- France
• Cab and omnibus service -- Law and legislation
• Cab and omnibus service -- Licenses
• Cab and omnibus service -- New York (State)
• Cab and omnibus service -- Ontario
• Cab and omnibus service -- Oregon
• Cab and omnibus service -- Texas
• Cab and omnibus service -- Trade unions

• Cabs
• Hacks (Carriages)
• Omnibus service

• Omnibuses and Cabs: Their Origin and History (London: Chapman and Hall, 1902), by Henry Charles Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The traveller's oracle; or, Maxims for locomotion: containing precepts for promoting the pleasures and hints for preserving the health of travellers. (H. Colburn, 1827), by William Kitchiner and John Jervis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bus operating practice (International Motor Co., 1925), by Roy Hauer and George H. Scragg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communication from the chief of the Bureau of franchises, transmitting the paper read before the National conference on city planning held at Toronto, May 25-27, 1914 : upon the utility of the motor bus, and municipal problems pertaining to its operation : June 1, 1914. (s.n., 1914), by John A. McCollum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on taxicab rates and vehicle traffic. (H.G. Adair, 1914), by Chicago (Ill.). Dept. of Public Services. Bureau of Valuation Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
• The traveller's oracle; or, maxims for locomotion, part 2 (of 2) : Containing precepts for promoting the pleasures and hints for preserving the health of travellers, by John Jervis, ed. by William Kitchiner (Gutenberg ebook)

• The London Hackney Cab Fares and Distances: Giving Nearly Thirteen Thousand Distances in Miles and Yards, Accurately Measured, and Calculated Under the Superintendence of the Commissioner of Police for the City of London (London: Waterlow and Sons, 1853) (multiple formats at Google)
• Bowles's New London guide, and hackney-coach directory: being an alphabetical index to all the streets, squares, lanes, courts ... churches, chapels ... villages, hamlets, hospitals, and public buildings ... within five miles of the metropolis. With the fares of hackney-coaches ... and rates of watermen ... (Printed for the proprietor Carrington Bowles, 1786), by Carington Bowles and Captain Tottenham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The London hackney cab fares and distances, giving nearly thirteen thousand distances in miles and yards, accurately measured, and calculated under the superintendence of the Commissioner of police for the city of London. (Waterlow & sons, 1853), by London (England) Commissioner of police (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fares for hackney carriages, and distances within a circle of four miles radius from Charing Cross, measured by authority of the Commissioner of Police. With an abstract of the laws relating to the fares, hiring of hackney carriages, and misconduct of drivers. (Published by authority of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police by C. Knight, 1866), by London (England) Commissioner of Police and London (England) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handy book of the law of London cabs and omnibuses ... (G. Routledge and sons, 1867), by William Thomas Charley (page images at HathiTrust)
• First [and final] report of the Committee of inquiry into London Motor Coach Services. 18th June [2nd August] 1932 ... (H.M. Stationery off., 1932), by Great Britain. Committee on London Motor Coach Services, William Warrender Mackenzie Amulree, and Great Britain Ministry of Transport (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of coach-rates; or hackney-coach directory ...; to which is added an appendix; giving the precise lengths of most of the principal streets of London; together with the rates of chairmen, watermen, and carmen. To the whole is prefixed a faithful abstract of the several Acts of Parliament, that have passed in respect to these matters. (The Editor, 1762), by London (England) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transportation facilities of London and Paris as of October, 1913. ([New York, 1915), by George Keegan, Fred T. Wood, New York Railways Company, and Interborough Rapid Transit Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ordered, that such of the rules and by-laws made by this court in pursuance of the late Ordinance for Regulation of Hackney Coachmen, and approved by His Highness the Lord Protector and Councel ... ([London] : Printed by James Flesher ..., [1655]), by Corporation of London and Christopher Packe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An act of Common Council for the better regulation of hackney-coaches (London : Printed by Samuel Roycroft ..., 1683), by Corporation of London. Court of Common Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Further reasons against increasing the number of hackney-coaches ([London : s.n., 1690?]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An affidavit of hackney coaches ([London : s.n., 1694]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Reasons to augment the number of hackney coaches, within the bills of mortality, from four hundred to six or eight hundred most humbly tendred to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament. ([London? : s.n., 1685]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Case of many coachmen in London and Westminster and within the weekly bills of mortality, licensed according to the Act for Licensing Hackney-Coaches, but yet turn'd out by the present commissioners. ([S.l. : s.n., 1670]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Omnibus, tramways, métropolitain. (Imprimerie municipale, 1902), by France, Edgard Hubault, and Seine (France). Conseil général (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Transportation facilities of London and Paris as of October, 1913. ([New York, 1915), by George Keegan, Fred T. Wood, New York Railways Company, and Interborough Rapid Transit Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Upon complaint made to this House that there is such an interruption by hackney-coaches ... (London, : Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb ..., 1698), by England and Wales Parliament (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A law to regulate hackney coaches, passed in Common council, March 1, 1813. (Printed by Hardcastle & Van Pelt, 1813), by New York (N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recommendations to John V. Lindsay, Mayor of the City of New York. (Mayor's Taxi Study Panel, 1966), by New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Taxi Study Panel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• By-law on cabs (s.n.], 1890), by Hamilton (Ont.) and Hamilton (Ont.). Board of Commissioners of Police (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rules and regulations governing the transportation of persons and property over the public highways by motor-propelled vehicles as provided for in chapter 380, General laws of Oregon, 1925, and acts amendatory thereof. P. S. C. order 1799; effective January 1, 1930 (superseding Order no. 432) ([Salem?, 1930), by Public Service Commission of Oregon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Motor bus law. Act to regulate motor propelled passenger vehicles engaged in transporting passengers for hire over the public highways of Texas. ([Austin, 1927), by Texas and Railroad Commission of Texas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hack no. 777. (Regency Books, 1963), by Ed Bunin (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Taxis, the public and paratransit : a coordination primer : final report (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Technology Sharing Division, 1978), by Inc Multisystems, International Taxicab Association, and United States. Department of Transportation. Technology Sharing Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• Results of the Santa Monica prototype program to assist and re-educate drinking drivers. Volume III. (1972), by H. Sackman, Oksana R. Didenko, T. M. Tang, and M. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subsidized taxi programs for elderly and handicapped persons in the San Francisco Bay Area. Final report. (1977), by Pamela Bloomfield and Sydwell Flynn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field test evaluation of rear lighting systems. Final report. (1978), by T. B. Malone, Mark Kirkpatrick, Jeffrey S. Kohl, and Clifford Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taxicabs as public transit. (1980) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Field test evaluation of rear lighting deceleration signals: II - field test. Final report. (1981), by R. G. Mortimer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taxicab inspector, examination, instruction; questions and answers on all phases of the duties of taxicab inspectors, descriptions and illustrations of the various types of meters in use in the city of New York, rates of fare, forms of application for licenses. The new taxicab ordinance, rules and regulations of the Mayor's Bureau of Licences, list of public hack stands, etc. ... (Civil Service Chronicle, 1913), by Civil Service Chronicle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A nation-wide survey of taxicab regulation : a survey of taxicab regulation in the United States and certain Canadian cities with special reference to state and local regulatory measures adopted for the stabilization of the industry and the elimination of unfair and destructive competition from cut-rate taxicabs. (American electric railway association, 1932), by American Transit Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Para-transit : neglected options for urban mobility (Urban Mass Transportation Administration :, 1974), by Ronald F. Kirby, United States. Federal Highway Administration, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Urban Interface Group, and Urban Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taxicabs as public transit (U.S. Department of Transportation, 1980), by United States. Dept. of Transportation, Urban Consortium for Technology Initiatives. Transportation Task Force, and inc Public Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shared-ride taximeters : state-of-the-art and future potential. (U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration :, 1982), by Roy E. Lave, Debra A. Newman, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Service and Management Demonstrations, Transportation Systems Center, and Systan Inc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Urban taxicabs : problems, potential, and planning. (North Central Texas Council of Governments, 1977), by Mary Beard, William G. Barker, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, and North Central Texas Council of Governments (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ride shared vehicle paratransit system (U.S. Department of Transportation, 1977), by Dwight M. B. Baumann, Tung Au, United States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of University Research, and Carnegie-Mellon University (page images at HathiTrust)
• A multi-origin/destination taxi system (Dept. of Transportation, Office of the Secretary, Office of University Research ;, 1975), by Tung Au, Dwight M. B. Baumann, Carnegie-Mellon University, and United States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of University Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cooperative forms of organization in the taxicab industry (Urban Mass Transportation Administration ;, 1983), by James I. Stein, Edward M. Bergman, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dept. of City and Regional Planning (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evaluation of paratransit prototype vehicles (U.S. Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Office of Technology Development and Deployment, 1977), by John Davidson, Richard V. Gallagher, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Technology Development and Deployment, and International Taxicab Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The role of taxicabs in urban transportation ([Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Transportation, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Plans, and International Affairs, Office of Transportation Planning Analysis, 1975, 1975), by Arthur L. Webster, John Dearborn Wells, Edward Wiener, and United States. Office of Transportation Planning Analysis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Municipal regulation of taxicabs. (American Municipal Association, 1951), by John R. Kerstetter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Shared ride taxi services as community public transit : executive summary (The Office ;, 1980), by Irvine. Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Roger Teal, and United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Policy and Program Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplement to report no. 95, Municipal regulation of taxicabs. (Bureau of Governmental Research and Services, University of Washington, in cooperation with Association of Washington Cities, 1949), by Dallas (Tex.) and Ernest Howard Campbell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana taxi feeder demonstration project : final report (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Office of Service and Methods Demonstration, 1979), by Ulrich F. W. Ernst, Gerald K. Miller, Urban Institute, and United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Service and Methods Demonstration (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.