Design of Taxi Interior and Seating Layout for the commuters of Mumbai


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Creator/Artist: Anand Anbu

Category: Mobility Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2012-2014

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Nishant Sharma


Detailed Description

In India, Taxis are the most used mode of Personalised public transport. Due to overcrowding in Mumbai trains, less frequency of buses and requirement for heavy luggage transportation, people prefer using taxis to travel within the city. With growing population and narrow roads, these taxis have to cater to different needs of the commuters. The scope of this project is to identify the issues that are specific to Mumbai taxi interiors. Further Interior design solutions are explored in order to address the issues of the passengers. The main focus of this project is on the seating layout arrangement within a given space taking the vehicle architecture into consideration. The needs of various Mumbai taxi commuters are also studied and different possible usage scenarios are created. The scenarios include luggage carrying commuters from/to railway stations and airports, and wheel chair-driven passengers. Based on these user scenarios, a suitable vehicle architecture is proposed. An interior space arrangement is explored based on the proposed vehicle architecture and an interior layout is finalized. After finalising the layout, the final design solution is derived by concept explorations and scaled mock-ups. A reconfigurable taxi interior space based on different usage requirements is also explored through various seat folding concepts