Mileage Taxi Services

Simulate mileage-based taxi fares.

• Requires After Dark DLC (duh)
• Requires Harmony
• Greatly inspired by Profitable Tourism
• I bet you all are misunderstanding vanilla taxis
• With this mod, taxis generate mileage-based fare
• Works with Ticket Price Customizer, Transport Lines Manager, and Profitable Tourism

It seems there are a lot of misconceptions about how taxis work, which may explain why so many of us complain "it doesn’t work" at Profitable Tourism.

Taxis in Cities Skylines collect fares ONLY WHEN the passenger has arrived at the destination. During the journey, the taxi does not generate any income. If for some reason the journey becomes invalid, then no fare is collected at all.

The final fare collected is calculated only with the straight-line distance (aka displacement) of the journey, and the actual mileage is not considered. This service income is accounted as "taxi income".

This does not look good at the budget screen.

This mod is very simple. Instead of the confusing end-of-journey fare, this mod splits taxi fares into two parts:

• Every tick when a taxi is carrying a passenger, it generates income based on its instantaneous mileage at around the same rate as the standard rate.
• At end-of-journey, the taxi collects an additional fare as the "base mileage fare" (currently equal to 500 "in-game meters").

Thus, mileage-based fares are simulated. With this, you are guaranteed to earn more taxi income than vanilla, with potentially more depending on your road layout.

Moreover, you can now estimate live city-wide taxi usage simply by looking at your public transport budget tab.

Note: you may stack e.g. Ticket Price Customizer with this mod. This may make taxis unbalanced, but you do you.

This mod is open-sourced, and the repo is available here: https://github.com/Vectorial1024/MileageTaxiServices

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And that’s all!