Service taxi

A Service taxi is a low-cost taxi service available in Lebanon, Israel and a few other countries, somewhat akin to a shuttle but usually provided by minivans or ordinary 4-door sedans which look like taxis. Service taxis travel mostly along major streets, where potential passengers on the sidewalks hail the passing service taxis and tell the drivers their desired destinations. Each driver then decides whether this is close enough to the destinations of other passengers already in the taxi, either declining or accepting the passenger. The price of a service taxi ride is almost always a fixed, pre-agreed price which may be as low as a third of the metered or otherwise comparable single fare trip in a regular taxi.