Cloud-based soft digital meter for taxi transportation

A taxi metering system, comprising:

• a first non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a computer, provide an administrative component of the taxi metering system, including a graphical user interface presented on a computer display, the administrative component configured to remotely establish a first set of fare attributes associated with one or more respective geographic operation areas, and to authorize and deauthorize operation of a mobile meter device based on whether or not the mobile meter device is within a predetermined geographic operation area of the one or more respective geographic operation areas;
• and
• a second non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a mobile app that, when executed by the mobile meter device, causes the mobile meter device to present a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile app on a display of the mobile meter device, the mobile app including a mobile meter device authentication unit, a driver authentication unit, a fare calculating unit, and a notification and indicator unit, the fare calculating unit configured to receive the first set of fare attributes from the administrative component and to dynamically calculate a fare based on the first set of fare attributes and a second set of fare attributes entered via the GUI.