Taxi livery
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Taxi livery varies greatly from country to country. In some countries, livery is determined by Government[clarification needed] legislation, in other countries, taxi operators have choice on colours.
Africa
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Egypt
In
(yellow and black), although a new Cairo livery (white with a black-and-white checkered stripe along the centre) has arisen in recent years, indicating those taxis with working meters.Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, taxis are generally blue and white, with white tops and blue bodies. Newer metered taxis are often yellow and green but have no set livery.
Eritrea
In Eritrea, all taxis are yellow. In Asmara, official cabs are all yellow with no specific liveries, yet minibuses can occasionally be found with white liveries. The taxis in Massawa are often large, like a minibus.
Nigeria
In Nigeria, each state has its own taxi livery, most notable being the yellow with black stripes of Lagos State taxis, mostly privately owned.
Asia
Hong Kong
Indonesia
In
India
In India, most taxis, especially those in Delhi and Mumbai, have distinctive black and yellow liveries with the bottom half painted black and upper half painted yellow. In Kolkata, most taxis are painted yellow with a blue strip in the middle (earlier in Kolkata it used to be yellow and black). However taxis are more common in Mumbai and Kolkata and not so much in Delhi (where autorickshaws are a more common sight). [citation needed] Private companies operating taxis can have their own liveries but need to get them approved from the government. Taxis and all other commercial vehicles have a yellow number plate and pay higher taxes.
Israel
In Israel, taxis are painted white with a yellow cap on top.
Japan
In
In 2017,
Malaysia
In Malaysia, most taxis have distinctive white and red liveries. In Kuala Lumpur, well established meter taxi companies with more than 7500 units have bright orange colour liveries with approval from the government. Private taxi operators however can be differentiated by the white and red livery while premium Executive taxis can be seen in blue livery.[3]
Pakistan
Most taxis in Pakistan are yellow painted while some old ones also run here with black colour and small of the upper half is yellow painted. [citation needed] There are also some privately owned companies which are running very good and latest model cabs in metropolitan areas such as Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad. These private companies use latest model locally assembled Toyota Corolla and Suzuki liana. There are also some companies offering Japan assembled cars in which Mitsubishi Lancer is popular.
Philippines
Most taxicabs in the Philippines are white with black text, the exception is for airport taxis which are usually yellow. On the sides of the cab, the taxi service and its operator licensing numbers are listed. On the back of the cab, a question "How's my driving" and a hotline number is posted for complaints against the cab driver and operator.
South Korea
In South Korea have two types of Taxi, Company Taxi and Personal Taxi. The company Taxi color is Orange but Personal Taxi is gray or white. But recently Taxi color restrictions were lifted.
Taiwan
In Taiwan, taxis are painted yellow prior to obtaining registration. The bumper may retain its factory colors by owner preference. The body may bear sponsored advertisements.
Europe
Germany
In
Most taxis in Germany are Mercedes-Benz limousines, predominantly of the E-Class series.
Greece
In
Ireland
In Ireland, taxis do not have a specific colour regulation and can be any colour, as long as they have a roof sign with the word "TAXI" or "TACSAÍ" (Irish for "taxi"), the license number, and the county code (D=Dublin, SO=Sligo, G=Galway, W=Waterford. The vehicle also needs to have a green and blue "TAXI" or "TACSAÍ" sign on both front doors in a specific design.
Italy
In Italy, taxis used to be green and black since the time of World War II, but were eventually changed to a bright yellow color. More recently, the color was changed to white.
Netherlands
Although not all taxis in the Netherlands carry the usual taxi signs, all vehicles that are in use as regular taxis are required by law to carry light blue licence plates with black lettering.
Portugal
In Portugal, taxis were traditionally black with the upper half painted light green. This was changed to a uniform beige color in the 1990s, but in the 2000s (decade) many new taxis have gone back to the traditional livery. Since 2018, the black and green color scheme came to be again the only allowed livery in continental Portugal.
In Madeira, during the 1980s, the black and green livery of the taxis was replaced by a yellow scheme with a stripe of light-blue in the middle.
In Azores, taxis used to have the same color schemes as in continental Portugal. Nowadays, taxis are white with two diagonal blue lines on the rear doors.[4]
Russia
In
Serbia
In Serbia taxis are operated by numerous small private companies. They can be of any color, but they must prominently display the company name and phone number.
Spain
In Spain, each town and city designates the color of their taxis, but in the overwhelming majority, it is white, usually with some kind of color detail and/or local symbol on the doors. For example, in Madrid (and also in Almería), taxis are white with a red diagonal stripe going through the front doors; in Seville, they are white with a diagonal yellow stripe down the rear doors; in Bilbao, white with a horizontal red stripe on the front doors, etc. A notable exception is Barcelona, where taxis are fully black, except the doors and the boot lid, which are painted yellow. [citation needed]
United Kingdom
London taxis are traditionally black, with the term "black cab" meaning a licensed taxi with a meter. Only approved vehicle models that meet certain conditions for passenger headroom and turning circle radius can be used as taxis, such as the LEVC TX and Mercedes Vito. There is no actual livery requirement for London taxis although most are painted black.
Outside London, taxi licensing is the responsibility of the local authority. Most major cities predominantly use London taxis, again traditionally black but this is not always mandatory. Smaller towns and rural areas allow more varieties of passenger cars, which may require taxis to be painted in a particular livery as a licence condition. Many towns use two-colour schemes, such as white vehicles with another specific colour on the bonnet and boot. This colour may have significance to the town, such as taxis in
In another sense of livery, the Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers became a City of London livery company in 2004.
North America
Caribbean
Three-wheeled Coco taxis, named because their shape resembles that of a coconut, are used in Havana, Cuba.
In Trinidad and Tobago, Maxi taxis that are colour-coded to a specific area, taxis are not colour-coded.
Central America
Costa Rican taxis are colored red. Usual cars for taxi use are Hyundai Accents, Toyota Coraxi (a cab version of the Toyota Corolla) and the Nissan Sentra (B13).
U.S. and Canada
In the
Some Canadian cities such as Toronto and Vancouver have taxis with their own custom color, but Montreal-area taxis (mostly mid-size cars such as the Chevrolet Malibu and Toyota Camry) remain stock.
In the late 1960s, New York City ordered that the city's taxis be painted yellow.[5] This sometimes led to confusion for New York visitors to Toronto, where police cars had yellow livery from the 1960s until they were phased out starting in 1986.[6] Most Toronto cabs had two-tone livery.[7]
In
Mexico
Mexico City's ubiquitous VW Type 1 (Beetle) cabs were green and white (a cnahge from earlier yellow) by law until early 2003. However, the tiny cars had been displaced by bigger four-door sedans, the Nissan Tsuru, a Sentra MkIII (B13) based saloon and recognized for their red/white (or silver) body color. No VW are colored this way anymore. Matchbox released a scale model of the VW taxi in 2004, numbered 31. It is common that every six years, when Mexico city elections are concluded, the recently elected mayor changes the livery of the public transportation.
Oceania
Australia
In
South America
Argentina
In Argentina, each city designates the color of their taxis. The most common combination in major cities is yellow and black in different proportions (Buenos Aires, Rosario, Mendoza, Mar del Plata, Río Cuarto, Córdoba, San Salvador de Jujuy, among others), but throughout the country, white is predominant, sometimes combined with other colors (cities like La Plata, Berazategui, San Juan, Bariloche).
Taxis in Salta are red (or dark red) with a black stripe. In Quilmes, they are silver-colored (occasionally gray or even dark gray).
There are many cities that don't have a defined livery. These taxis can be identified by their roof sign and can be found in cities like Ushuaia, Formosa, Corrientes or Catamarca.
Brazil
Brazilian taxis are colored red in
, as each city defines its own regulation.Chile
In Chile, taxi liveries are somewhat standardized by law and separated by category. Basic taxis are colored black (bearing the licence plate number on both front doors) and yellow roofs. So-called "Executive Taxis" may be red, silver or white liveried but must wear an orange licence plate with black letters and numbers. "Tourism Taxis" are dark blue livered with orange licence plates with white letters and numbers. Shared taxicabs called "Taxi Colectivos" are generally black livered, bearing their service number on the roof and their licence plate numbers painted in yellow on both front doors. Rural taxi-colectivos are yellow liveried bearing their service number on the roof and their licence plate numbers painted in black on both front doors.
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