Int. J. Hum. Capital Urban Manage., 4(1): 69-76, Winter 2019 *Corresponding Author: Email: edrisi@kntu.ac.ir Phone: +98 21 88779474-5 Fax: +98 21 88779476 Internatonal Journal of Human Capital in Urban Management (IJHCUM) Homepage: htp://www.ijhcum.net/ CASE STUDY Modeling the behavior of disordered taxi drivers of Tehran for choosing passenger and destnaton A. Edrisi 1, * N. Javanbakht 2 , H. Ganjipour 1 1 Department of Civil Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Imam Khomeini Internatonal University, Qazvin, Iran In this study, the manner of private taxis drivers has been investgated for choosing passenger and destnaton from a fxed point. Therefore, two models called Multnomial and Nested Logit Models have been utlized. The informaton gained by scrolling in 2016 is the input data, which are in the format of revealed preference, acquired by the verbal interview in Vanak Square in Tehran (Iran). Based on data resulted by 120 questonnaires the selecton modeling of passenger and destnaton was done. The results of the descriptve analysis show that 96.7% of respondents are men and only 3.3% are women. In additon, 15% of them are illiterate, 16.7% have under Diploma degree, 52.5% have Diploma degree and 15.8% have Bachelor degree or higher. On average, the verifcaton was 44%, and the results achieved by this research show that the parameters consistng of searching tme, the working tme of drivers and the traveling tme were the most important factors resulted from the calibraton of the Logit models. Nested Logit model has a beter performance compared with the Multnomial Logit model. The Nested Logit Model has ρ2=0.45 while this value is 0.35 for the Multnomial Logit Model. Finally, the suitable decision has been made in the various path based on gained results. ©2019 IJHCUM. All rights reserved. ARTICLE INFO Artcle History: Received 11 September 2018 Revised 08 November 2018 Accepted 25 December 2018 Keywords: Disordered taxis Multnomial Logit Nested Logit Public transport Statstcal Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Taxi is one of the rental and public transportaton means which is mainly used for short trips within the cites that can carry a few passengers. They can be divided into three main categories based on their operaton called line, private and disordered taxis. The frst type is the line taxis that have the fxed beginning and the end. The second type named Azhans handled by private companies work in big cites and in a certain region. By means of this method, the passengers placed in every positon can call the companies and request the taxi. The third type is disordered taxis, and in this method, the commuters who would be in every place can rent the taxis if there is a coordinaton between the taxi driver and the passenger. In the other word, the destnaton is chosen based on the conditon of the driver and the passenger (Salanova and Estrada, 2015). In Tehran city, it is common to use the private car for moving the passengers. Up to now, an all-out research has not been done in this mater, but many researches have been done as to the taxi and the characteristcs DOI:10.22034/IJHCUM.2019.01.08