About Taxi Times

Taxi Times

Taxi Times is an independent trade magazine for the taxi industry in the German-speaking region, published by the taxitimes Verlags GmbH of Engelsberg in Bavaria and guided by the motto "Taxi ist wertvoll," taxi is valuable. Appearing four times a year in print with a print run of 16,000 copies, it presents itself as the voice of the taxi industry in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, with its editorial reporting guided by the motto "Taxi ist wertvoll," taxi is valuable. The magazine covers the industry's trade-policy activities, digital trends, product news, and court rulings. It operates as an information platform across print, web, social media, newsletter, its own app, and a YouTube channel, reporting on commercial passenger transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with an eye on the international taxi scene. The publisher is Jürgen Hartmann.

Overview

Taxi Times appears quarterly in print as Taxi Times DACH, with at least 28 pages per issue in A4 format, and publishes continuously online at taxitimes.com. Its target group is the taxi industry in the full breadth: taxi operators, officials of taxi associations, managers and staff of dispatch centers, representatives of the taxi industry, and, beyond the trade itself, politicians, authority staff, and chamber-of-industry employees focused on transport and environment.

The editorial focus is on the trade-policy activities of the industry associations, digital trends, news on industry-relevant products, court rulings affecting the trade, and the tariff and operating-obligation debates that decide operators' livelihoods. The print edition covers current taxi trends and news from Germany and selectively from Austria, Switzerland, and the rest of the taxi world, while the Munich web section focuses on taxi topics from the greater Munich area, including the activities of the Munich and Bavarian industry associations. The single issue costs 6.80 euros, and the premium subscription is 66 euros including VAT and shipping. The magazine's ISSN is 2367-3834.

What distinguishes Taxi Times in the taxi trade press is its advocacy stance. The motto "Taxi ist wertvoll" sets the tone for the editorial reporting: the magazine positions itself on the side of the traditional taxi trade in its conflicts with platform competitors, regulatory pressures, and the structural crisis that has thinned the ranks of taxi associations. Its reporting gives space to the operators' perspective on tariffs, operating obligations, quality debates, and transport policy.

History

Taxi Times is published by the taxitimes Verlags GmbH, based at Gartenstrasse 12 in 84549 Engelsberg, with Jürgen Hartmann as publisher, handling editorial, advertising, and distribution. The magazine was established as an independent trade magazine for the taxi industry, developing from a print quarterly into a cross-media information platform with a mobile-optimized website, a newsletter, an e-kiosk, a dedicated app, and a YouTube channel, each channel serving the industry's information needs between the quarterly print issues.

The magazine's reporting has documented the taxi industry's difficult years: the member losses of the associations as taxi businesses close, with Berlin's taxi trade shrinking from five state associations as one dissolves, the battles over taxi stands in city centers such as Berlin's Europaplatz, the debates over tariffs and operating obligations, and the conflicts with digital platforms over pricing models and billing. Its 2026 issues show a publication closely following the trade's struggles and its moments of self-assertion, from the Vienna taxi industry's fight over cost pressures and quality debates to the Braunschweig taxi dispatch center's rescue by a consortium of taxi operators after insolvency, without investors and without platform companies.

The 2026 publication schedule documents the quarterly rhythm: issue 1 appearing 27 February, issue 2 on 20 May, issue 3 on 19 August, and issue 4 on 28 October, each preceded by advertising deadlines. The magazine's media data for print and web is updated annually, with the 2026 edition documenting the print and digital offering.

Coverage and Content

Taxi Times covers the taxi trade across its political, economic, and technical dimensions. Trade-policy coverage follows the activities of the industry associations: tariff debates, operating obligations, quality initiatives, and the representation of the trade toward cities and regulators. Recent reporting includes the revision of the taxi tariff in the Aurich district, where the mandatory night operating obligation on the island of Norderney is seen by some operators as existentially threatening, and the Vienna taxi industry's demands for tariff adjustments, fuel-cost relief, stronger official controls, and a seat at the table in transport-policy decisions.

Digital and product coverage follows the trends and news on industry-relevant products, from dispatch technology to vehicles, and the court rulings that shape the trade's legal framework. The magazine reports on the platform competition, giving voice to operators who find the platforms' pricing models and billing difficult to comprehend, and on the structural changes in dispatch centers and associations.

The reporting style is engaged and partisan on behalf of the trade. The Braunschweig story of 2026, in which taxi operators formed a consortium to continue the insolvent dispatch center under a new company, preserving the location and all six jobs, was presented as a sign that the trade can assert itself: no investor, no platform, just the courage of the operators. Regional pages, including the Munich section with its focus on the Munich and Bavarian associations, carry the local association news, and the Taxi-Termine and Taxi-Songs service sections add the community elements that make the magazine the trade's meeting point.

The DACH taxi markets the magazine covers differ in their regulatory traditions. Germany's Personenbeförderungsgesetz sets the federal framework with municipal implementation; Austria's taxi trade operates under the Gelegenheitsverkehrsgesetz with its own tariff and licensing regimes in the federal states; Switzerland's markets are regulated canton by canton, with large dispatch centers organizing the trade's daily operations in cities like Vienna and Zurich. What unites the three markets is the platform pressure: app-based ride-hailing has challenged the traditional taxi's tariff and operating obligations across the German-speaking region, and the magazine's advocacy journalism — 'Taxi ist wertvoll' — speaks to operators in all three countries defending the regulated trade's value against the platforms' pricing power.

Organization and Ownership

Taxi Times is published by the taxitimes Verlags GmbH of Engelsberg, at Gartenstrasse 12 in the 84549 district, with Jürgen Hartmann as publisher, reachable at 08634 260 85 77 and through the taxitimes.com domain addresses. Hartmann handles the editorial office, advertising, and distribution, with contact addresses for information, editorial, and advertising at the taxitimes.com domain. The magazine's print run is 16,000 copies, and its ISSN is 2367-3834.

The magazine positions itself as an independent trade magazine, the mouthpiece for the taxi industry in the German-speaking region. Financial details of the operation are not publicly confirmed beyond the circulation and rate-card figures published in its media data, which documents banner advertising on the website with monthly prices and the combination discount for print and digital advertising.

Digital Presence

Taxi Times operates as a cross-media information platform. The website taxitimes.com, optimized for mobile devices, carries the full breadth of taxi topics, with the DACH section covering Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and the Munich subsection focusing on the greater Munich area. The site offers banner advertising in formats from top banners to half-page ads, with monthly prices documented in the media data.

The brand extends to a newsletter, an e-kiosk for digital issues, a dedicated Taxi Times app, and a YouTube channel, alongside its social media presence. The print issues are distributed to subscribers by mail and are available for pickup at the cooperating taxi associations and dispatch centers in cities across the region, whose partnership network the magazine lists, anchoring the title in the industry's own institutions. The combination of the quarterly print magazine, the continuously updated website, the app, the newsletter, and the video channel gives Taxi Times a multi-channel presence in the taxi industry's daily life, guided by its motto that taxi is valuable and by its claim to be the industry's mouthpiece in the German-speaking region.