Each city to have its own color of taxi in Azerbaijan

This standard will be a cause for fundamental changes in passenger transportation by taxis and buses. According to Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Standardization Metrology and Patent, this standard will belong to passenger station plants.

The most interesting requirements belong to taxis. According to new standard, all automobiles intending to operate as taxi must be repainted. Head of Press Service of Committee Fazil Talibli says that, the taxis in each city and region of Azerbaijan will have its colors. For example, the taxis in Baku must be in violet, in Sumgayit – white, in Ganja – grey.

Several changes will be made in external design of taxis as well. Emblem or name of city will be written on the doors of car and “intercity” word must be written on the front doors of intercity taxis.

Interior design will be changed as well. Thus, "name" and "phone number" of  the driver and information about the driver must be written on the device panel of the front seat for passenger. The drivers will also be provided with GPS system.

As for the buses, no big changes are expected to be made. Only “Enter” and “Exit” must be written on the doors of suburban and city buses. The number of bus, the names of first, last and middle stations will be written on the electron indicator board.

Number of buses, "name" and "phone number" of the driver, seats for children and invalids, scheme of route network of the city and information on the payment of fare must be inside.

According to the requirements of standard on bus stations, indicator stops must be on all stations. Besides, the name of a bus station, name of  the last station, start and end time of the traffic, maximum interval of traffic must be written on the board too.

The main request for taxi stations is the size of station and according to size at least three taxis must be stationed there. According to passenger station plants, the departure and arrival schedule of routes, fare, categories on persons buying extraordinary ticket must be shown. These new standards will be applied on December 20.


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