調查:倫敦出租車服務全球最佳

London taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going, are ranked best in the world, according to an annual taxi poll.

The survey by travel website found London taxis, despite being the most expensive, beat rivals across the globe to head the list for the third consecutive years, scoring a total of 59 percent in votes on several categories by travelers.

London taxi drivers were voted both friendliest and most knowledgeable. Drivers in the English capital must pass a rigorous examination called The Knowledge to earn their taxi license.

New York's yellow taxis came second in the list, scoring 27 percent which was up 10 percentage points from last year even though Manhattan's cab drivers tied with Parisian taxi drivers as the rudest.

Travelers said New York had the most available taxis.

Cabbies in Rome were voted the worst drivers in the world with almost one in 10 travelers thinking the Italian capital had the world's worst taxi drivers when it came to the quality of driving.

"Traveling by taxi is one of the first experiences that many travellers have upon arrival in a new city. In fact, the research found that cabs are by far the most popular method of traveling from the airport to their hotel," a spokesman for said in a statement.

The global poll scored city based taxis for their levels of cleanliness, value, quality of driving, knowledge of the area, friendliness, safety and availability.

Rounding out the top five were Tokyo with a total score of 26 percent, Berlin with 17 percent, and Bangkok famed for its tuk-tuks scoring 14 percent.

The survey for , part of the Expedia group, was conducted among over 1,900 travellers between May 11-28 this year.

一項有關出租車的年度調查顯示，倫敦出租車因其態度友好、熟悉路線的出租車司機獲評世界最佳出租車服務。

這項由旅遊網站開展的調查顯示，儘管價格最貴，但倫敦的出租車服務仍擊敗世界其它城市，連續第三年被遊客評爲世界最佳，總體得票率爲59%。

倫敦出租車司機在服務態度和路線熟悉程度兩項的評選中名列榜首。倫敦的出租車司機在從業前必須通過一項嚴格的“知識”考試方可拿到出租司機駕照。

儘管紐約曼哈頓區和法國巴黎的出租車司機並列獲評最粗魯的哥，但紐約的黃色出租車仍以27%的得票率名列第二，比去年上升了10個百分點。

遊客們認爲在紐約打車最方便。

羅馬的哥被評爲全球最糟糕的出租車司機，近十分之一的遊客認爲意大利首都的出租車司機駕駛技術最差。

網站的一名發言人在聲明中說：“打車是很多遊客在到達一座新城市後所經歷的第一件事。調查還發現，出租車是目前從機場前往酒店最受歡迎的交通方式。”

這項全球調查對各國城市出租車的清潔程度、價格、司機的駕駛技術、對當地的熟悉程度、態度、安全性和便捷性等方面進行了評分。

排在前五位的其它幾個城市還包括東京（26%）、柏林（17%）和以“突突車”而聞名的曼谷（14%）。

隸屬於捷達集團的網站於今年5月11日至28日對1900多名遊客開展了該調查。

Vocabulary:

tie: to make the same score as; equal in a contest（得分相同，打成平局）

cabbies: a cabdriver（出租車司機）

tuk-tuks: (in Thailand) a three-wheeled motor vehicle used as a taxi（電動三輪車，也稱爲“突突車”）