{"id":1089,"date":"2011-07-24T23:51:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2011-07-24T23:51:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:21:01","slug":"the-economics-of-autos-and-cabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/24\/the-economics-of-autos-and-cabs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics of Autos and Cabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello beloved readers. For a personal project, I&#8217;m trying to understand the economics of being an autowala or taxi-driver (especially in Mumbai). Do you have links or pointers to any research or other reading material about this? The topics I&#8217;m looking for include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What the licensing system is<\/li>\n<li>What the revenue and costs are<\/li>\n<li>How the union politics work &#8211; how many unions there are, what there primary interests are, and so on and so forth<\/li>\n<li>Whether there are different models of who owns and who rents the cab, or whether there&#8217;s one dominant practice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>If you have links or citations, please do share them in the comments. If you have personal experience, please share that too.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello beloved readers. For a personal project, I&#8217;m trying to understand the economics of being an autowala or taxi-driver (especially in Mumbai). Do you have links or pointers to any research or other reading material about this? The topics I&#8217;m looking for include: What the licensing system is What the revenue and costs are How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal","category-business-and-economics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-hz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}