Abstract: The invention relates to taximeter installations including mobile taximeter apparatus (2) coacting via radio (3, 4) with a central computer (1). Each taximeter (2) includes registers (15, 26) for collecting pulses relating to travelled distance and consumed time, the central computer (1) initiating periodic read-out (20, 21, 29, 30) of the register content, inter alia for fare price calculation. The central computer also sets a criterion frequency value, so that the pulses related to travelled distance are prevented by means of a circuit (9) from being stored in the register (15) when the frequency of said pulses falls below the criterion frequency, time pulses being stored in a register (26) when the criterion frequency is not attained by the travelled distance pulses.

Abstract: An electronic taximeter of the type including fare computing circuitry for developing a sequence of pulses at a rate representative of a fare accrual rate computed according to a particular tariff, and a tariff selecting circuit operable for selecting tariff control signals representative of the tariff at which the fare is being computed. A master-remote slave display pair displays both the accrued fare as it continually accrues, and a tariff at which the accruing fare is being computed. Both of the displays include a plurality of counters which continually count the sequence of pulses for developing a cumulative pulse count continually representative of the accrued fare. Both of the displays also include display elements for displaying numerals representative of the fare, and respective decoders for receiving the cumulative pulse count within the respective counting circuits and decoding the same to drive respective display elements.