Taxis
The Waze app has the ability to set Taxi as the vehicle type.
On road segments restrictions can be set where Taxi is one of the available vehicle types. But...
It is NOT the intention to drive with the Taxi setting and also NOT the intention to edit for Taxi.
The Taxi setting in the Netherlands is reserved for safety regions. For the time being, Amsterdam edits for Taxi are still tolerated.
Local
In different municipalities, taxis with a local permit can use special roads (such as Bus lanes), shortcuts and parking spaces. However, such a local permit is only valid in a very specific area. For example, Taxis with a Utrecht license have no special rights outside Utrecht. Due to the very local effect of those permits, it is very difficult for us to support the use of vehicle type Taxi throughout the country. That is why, as a rule, we do not edit for Taxis in the Netherlands. Taxis that use Waze as their navigation tool should simply set Passenger car as the vehicle type.
Safety Regions
There is one important exception. The taxi setting is used by emergency services in some specific Safety Regions. Here we as Waze Netherlands have a collaboration with these Safety Regions. Restrictions with only allowed for Taxi, here means: allowed for police, fire brigade and ambulances.
South Holland South Safety Region
There are additional agreements made with the South Holland South Safety Region (VRZHZ). These editor accounts all have VRZHZ in their name and from the
VRZHZ is Ronald Dekker (@Ro-VRZHZ on Slack) the central point of contact.
The safety region has integrated Waze into their alarm application. Via a
notification they are sent directly to the incident address using Waze. Correct navigation
for the priority vehicles is therefore very important to them.
Important for VRZHZ are closures. They have direct contact with the various contractors
contacts. Based on this information, they set specific closures that are possible
deviate from public sources such as Melvin. So if there is a difference between
a closure in WME and a source like Melvin, you should leave the closure
as is. If in doubt, please contact Ronald (Ro-VRZHZ) via Slack.
What differs from the standard working agreements in the Netherlands is that they have segments
cut up for closures. Usually only an entire segment is closed, but
as a result, a priority vehicle may have to make an unnecessary detour. They cut
well in time for the closure of a segment so that the Map-update is on time. So if you
see additional nodes on a segment that were created by a VRZHZ account,
then this is a conscious action based on these working agreements.
It has also been agreed that for segments that are one-way traffic, they will be segments
temporarily make it two-way with, in the closed direction, a restriction for regular
traffic and an exception for their priority vehicles (taxi vehicle type). Also this
is to get their vehicles to the right destination as quickly as possible.
If you have any questions about these agreements, please contact DutchDirt or ArnoB01,
who made the agreements on behalf of the LCs.
Currently, these are the safety regions:
- Friesland
- Zuid-Holland Zuid
- Flevoland
- Gooi en Vechtstreek
- Rotterdam-Rijnmond (BP area)
- Veiligheids- en Gezondheidsregio Gelderland Midden (VGGM)
The official regional division.
Bus lanes
For bus lanes that are indicated on the map, but not as motorable roads, the road type Pedestrian_Boardwalk is used. Bus lanes specific to the vehicle type Taxi are assigned a road type corresponding to the importance of the routing with the restriction Only for Taxis.
Lock on L4.