One taxi-booking app to pool them all?
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One taxi-booking app to pool them all?
Published on Sep 09, 2013
MoobiTaxi's developer, Maven Lab, hopes to get operators on board to help make it easier and faster for commuters to get cabs. -- PHOTO: MOOBITAXI.COM
A NEW taxi-booking app may soon bring some respite to frustrated commuters who find it difficult to get a cab here.
Called MoobiTaxi, it aims to make it easier and faster for commuters to get their rides by bringing the mobile booking services of all the cab operators under one platform.
Operators like ComfortDelGro, SMRT and Trans-Cab have their own booking services and smartphone apps - services which MoobiTaxi hopes it can consolidate.
The new app, developed by Maven Lab, which helped companies like ComfortDelGro and NTUC with their iPhone apps, also allows commuters to "check-in" their locations.
Nearby cabbies can then use the app, which acts like a radar, to detect the alerts real-time and pick up passengers.
Maven Lab's vice-president of products, Mr Jonathan Pang, said this feature is more effective than hailing a cab on the street.
"It helps to solve the common problem... when some passengers may be waiting in a location not easily seen from the road."
While bigger operators already have an established booking system, Mr Pang said the move will benefit smaller players, like Prime Taxis, which still do not have a mobile booking service.
The latest move comes amid commuter complaints that they are not able to secure cab bookings. The authorities put in place more stringent rules last October, specially to improve services during peak hours.
Among the beefed-up measures, taxi operators must answer more calls and within a shorter time frame.
The largest cab operator ComfortDelGro, which owns 16,600 of the 27,000-plus taxis here, said it already has "a very advanced taxi-booking system", but will consider working with external apps.
Commuter Alvin Lee, who takes a cab to work every day, hopes the MoobiTaxi app will make cab services here more reliable. "On some days, it can take more than half an hour just to book a cab, even though you see empty cabs on the road."
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The question is, got call charges or not?....
If got, than just LPPL lor....
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Very new app, no reviews yet
Cab company no comment if this can prevent aeroplane bookings, missing passengers, or multiple bookings with different taxi booking app?
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or whether TD can differentiate from taxi stand from office lobby
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if only taxi driver can find paxs using this apps plus call charges applicable,then it will be useful!
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the issue is not with technology
is with the attitude of the cabbies
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Originally posted by FireIce:
the issue is not with technology
is with the attitude of the cabbies
The issue is not with the attitude of the cabbies..
Is with the structure of the taxi meter....
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LJ, smlj apps, so many apps on the market, limpeh on the road already pick up buay hu liao, still go look at apps for fcuk? diam diam ting ting, still need apps???
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Originally posted by FireIce:
the issue is not with technology
is with the attitude of the cabbies
Wow, 1st time you speak sensibly....
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Originally posted by Keepthechange666:
Wow, 1st time you speak sensibly....
Wow, meaning for the rest millions times, she speaks with no sense??? -
Won't work one lah. Which taxi company will want to share their booking data with a third party? If TD no show, whose fault? Who can pax complain to?The app company or the taxi company?
Must overcome the main issues of payments for call booking, confidentiality of data and accountability under the LTA Quality of Service standards. Of course, these involve the question of TD's attitudes as well.
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Originally posted by bowah:
Wow, meaning for the rest millions times, she speaks with no sense???Knn, if limpek tio ban again, must be you la....
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If tio ban, please change yr nick to a simple short one hor.
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Originally posted by Taxilim88:
Won't work one lah. Which taxi company will want to share their booking data with a third party? If TD no show, whose fault? Who can pax complain to?The app company or the taxi company?
Must overcome the main issues of payments for call booking, confidentiality of data and accountability under the LTA Quality of Service standards. Of course, these involve the question of TD's attitudes as well.
Please lah, logic already tell us nothing is free in this world, free apps also end up with advertisment for their gain, so if their apps become popular, they become more popular and those want to advertise in their app will hv to pay more, you think really people give u free apps ar?? -
Originally posted by bowah:
If tio ban, please change yr nick to a simple short one hor.
Hu la....
But I like long long leh....
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Originally posted by Taxilim88:
Won't work one lah. Which taxi company will want to share their booking data with a third party? If TD no show, whose fault? Who can pax complain to?The app company or the taxi company?
Must overcome the main issues of payments for call booking, confidentiality of data and accountability under the LTA Quality of Service standards. Of course, these involve the question of TD's attitudes as well.
how about attitudes of paxs?making booking but still stand by roadside to take other taxis.keep cancelling calls.no show.cancel our booking when nearing destination cos with phone apps they can see the taxi approaching!then pretend to flag down our taxis cos can save booking charge mah!
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Originally posted by foolsh_2000:
how about attitudes of paxs?making booking but still stand by roadside to take other taxis.keep cancelling calls.no show.cancel our booking when nearing destination cos with phone apps they can see the taxi approaching!then pretend to flag down our taxis cos can save booking charge mah!
Look ah Fu, characteristic and attitudes of paxs and even human, so to speak is hard to change. This kind of stuffs have been going for years since the start of on call system.And as the saying goes, if thing cannot change, there is only 3 ways you can do,
1. change yourself to adapt: get use to all these type of pax, labelled them as cheapo, and do not pick up them when call cancelled but you know they are the caller.
2. change yourself to accept: to accept that this is part and parcels of TD, if people can hack a computer system, why not pax abuse the call system, pick them up and move on.
3. Throw key and start another new job, new way of working, new life and new timming
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Originally posted by Keepthechange666:
Hu la....
But I like long long leh....
Oh, you like long one...gum gum, later when we meet, you go toilet wash clean clean and wait for the long one -
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waste time waste $$$....such app will nvr work.
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Same kind of app develop by Olacabs. Olacabs develop android as well as iPhone app to make taxi booking easier in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune and Chennai. People just install it in free of cost and signup. After signup you app show you the available cabs nearest you. You can book ride now otherwise ride later and push schedule.
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Originally posted by Sujitsood:
Same kind of app develop by Olacabs. Olacabs develop android as well as iPhone app to make taxi booking easier in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune and Chennai. People just install it in free of cost and signup. After signup you app show you the available cabs nearest you. You can book ride now otherwise ride later and push schedule.
Ok. Noted
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Mai tiam tiam look at apps lah, in Singapore (not india hor), you should know better than me, where got free lunch one? even given you a free lunch, somewhere down the road, hv to pay back one hor.
So, let be more pragmatic, especially so in taxi driving, sweep, Q, calls and some bookings will do, no need these smlj apps and that apps. The best apps is yr taxi companies' apps lah. Bao wu call charges one, bao wu record one, bao jiak one
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This all taxi booking app in India have only android and iPhone versions so please also launch windows app for taxi booking because too many nokia smartphone user in India.
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Neh..u fm punjabi or tamil nadu, from what I know when I travelled in India, they do not even hv meter, rear mirrors and aircon.
