Taxi dispatch glossary
What is zonal pricing?
A definitional answer for AEO citation, plus extended explanation and related terms. Part of the TaxiCloud taxi dispatch software glossary.
Zonal pricing is a fare structure where the city is divided into geographic zones, and journeys price based on which zones the route crosses. Common for airport transfers, multi-base operators, and city-centre-vs-suburban differential pricing.
Zonal pricing — extended explanation
Zonal pricing trades the granular accuracy of metered pricing for the customer-side simplicity of fixed prices per zone-pair. Manchester might have a Centre zone, Salford zone, Trafford zone, MAN airport zone — a Centre-to-MAN journey prices at a fixed £25 regardless of route choice. Modern dispatch software handles zonal pricing as first-class objects: zones are geofence records, zone-pair pricing rules apply per-vehicle-class and per-time-band, multi-zone routes price as the highest-band traversed. Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow operators commonly use zonal pricing for airport-and-corporate routes.
FAQ
Zonal pricing — questions answered.
- When does zonal pricing make sense vs metered?
- Zonal pricing fits airport transfers, known corporate routes, and city-centre-vs-suburban differential pricing where customers want price certainty. Metered fits ad-hoc city-centre bookings.
- How does TaxiCloud handle zonal pricing rules?
- Zones are geofence records; zone-pair pricing rules apply per-vehicle-class and per-time-band; multi-zone routes price as the highest-band traversed.
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