New taxi-sharing app Pair Taxi launches in Singapore
04 Nov 2015|3,025 views
A new transport app promises to book you a taxi in the Central Business District (CBD) during the evening rush hours in a shorter time and for a lower fare, if you share your ride with others, reported The Straits Times. The Pair Taxi app, which launches on Thursday (Nov 5th), matches up to three passengers at a taxi stand to one cab, and whose destinations are within two kilometres of one another.
The service will start in the evening at two taxi stands in the Tanjong Pagar area - at International Plaza and Capitol Tower. The plan is to extend it to up to 20 CBD locations later.
Over 100 taxi drivers have signed up with Pair Taxi so far. Commuters can download the app on Thursday. With it, they input their booking requests and destination, and are then matched up with other passengers at the two initial taxi stands.
While Pair Taxi joins the likes of GrabTaxi, Hailo, MoobiTaxi and Uber Taxi, its founder Andy Zheng says there is a difference.
The Managing Director of Aspiring Citizens Cleantech, the start-up behind the app, said, "The other apps are focused on increasing the supply; we are focused on increasing the efficiency. We want to transport more commuters with the same numbers in the existing taxi fleet, and are also targeting the peak hour problem."
Pair Taxi has incentives for both drivers and passengers. In the app's fare-splitting system, a trip shared among two passengers can be up to 50 percent cheaper, and up to 66 percent, if shared between three parties, depending on the trip distance and time. Cabbies stand to make between $2 and $5 more for the ride. Payments are made in the app via credit card, so passengers can be dropped off in quick succession. If a passenger cannot be matched with others, a taxi will still be sent to him, and the fare will charged as a normal ride with booking fees.
A new transport app promises to book you a taxi in the Central Business District (CBD) during the evening rush hours in a shorter time and for a lower fare, if you share your ride with others, reported The Straits Times. The Pair Taxi app, which launches on Thursday (Nov 5th), matches up to three passengers at a taxi stand to one cab, and whose destinations are within two kilometres of one another.
The service will start in the evening at two taxi stands in the Tanjong Pagar area - at International Plaza and Capitol Tower. The plan is to extend it to up to 20 CBD locations later.
Over 100 taxi drivers have signed up with Pair Taxi so far. Commuters can download the app on Thursday. With it, they input their booking requests and destination, and are then matched up with other passengers at the two initial taxi stands.
While Pair Taxi joins the likes of GrabTaxi, Hailo, MoobiTaxi and Uber Taxi, its founder Andy Zheng says there is a difference.
The Managing Director of Aspiring Citizens Cleantech, the start-up behind the app, said, "The other apps are focused on increasing the supply; we are focused on increasing the efficiency. We want to transport more commuters with the same numbers in the existing taxi fleet, and are also targeting the peak hour problem."
Pair Taxi has incentives for both drivers and passengers. In the app's fare-splitting system, a trip shared among two passengers can be up to 50 percent cheaper, and up to 66 percent, if shared between three parties, depending on the trip distance and time. Cabbies stand to make between $2 and $5 more for the ride. Payments are made in the app via credit card, so passengers can be dropped off in quick succession. If a passenger cannot be matched with others, a taxi will still be sent to him, and the fare will charged as a normal ride with booking fees.
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