The most common vehicle for hire around the world is the taxicab; other vehicles for hire include limousines, rickshaws, velotaxis (pedicabs), horse-drawn carriages (including hackney carriages and caleches), and water taxis.
Jitneys, paratransit, and shuttle buses are hybrids--halfway between taxicabs and buses--and operate along somewhat fixed routes, with some flexibility in where passengers may be picked up or dropped off. Some of these routes may be very long, as in New Zealand. Shuttle services are also offered from many airports around the world: they take multiple independent passengers, like a bus, and usually run between two fixed areas (typically an airport and a downtown or hotel area), but will often pick up and drop off passengers anywhere reasonable within those areas, like a taxi.