It doesn't matter since the patent expired in 2001.
What I have tried to say with this post is that it is execution that matters - maybe this patent had a brilliant idea in it, but it was never implemented.
Tech matters too; the necessary IT infrastructure to pull this off was theoretically technologically feasible, but not economically feasible. You couldn't have run a profitable service that could have serviced those costs until you were very, very large already.
Uber would not be in violation of this patent. It is based upon the concept of drivers offering rides, which is not how Uber works.
Disclosure: I am not a Lawyer, I work for Uber, and I have been known to hate on software patents.
I'm shocked, just shocked that at the height of demand-responsive transportation system research that someone would have patented one!