On-Demand Mobile Apps Are Transforming The Transport Industry

 If you compared ten years ago, the transport sector was totally different. You had to wait under the sun for the driver who had not arrived even after ETA 15 minutes. You’d feel frustrated and deceived. However, today, things have changed dramatically. Instead of waiting for hours to locate our cabs or buses, we can now use on-demand mobile apps for the same, thanks to the latest technology. Apart from this, it has got more manageable for the cab or bus driver to reach the destination at the right time.

The success of Uber primarily drove the transport industry. Every entrepreneur in the transport sector wants to duplicate this model and revamp the logistics solution by removing the intermediaries. Launching a mobile app for the same will undoubtedly boost the overall sales and the revenues of the transport company. Plus, it will remove the third parties, thus cutting up to 30% commissions charged by them. 

On-demand mobile apps reduce the cost and time to receive and deliver packages. Moreover, it forms a direct connection between drivers and those in need of the services. This means that the business model has gotten more efficient than conventional models. 

Smartphones have become a crucial part of our lives. Due to technological progress, people have switched to the contemporary methods of ordering services with a few clicks on their mobile apps.

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Uber and Lyft sued by Massachusetts over worker misclassification

The US state of Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Uber and Lyft yesterday (Tuesday, July 14) saying that the companies are misclassifying their drivers as contractors when they should be employees.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise, the companies are coming under the exact same scrutiny in California.

For years Uber and Lyft have built their billion-dollar businesses on a model that exploits drivers,” Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said when announcing the lawsuit. “Uber and Lyft set the rates. They alone set the rules. Drivers are employees.”

“For years these companies have systematically denied their drivers basic workplace protections and benefits, and profited greatly from it. This business is unfair and it’s also illegal under Massachusetts law,” she added.

We shouldn’t expect the state’s motion to change anything soon. Just like we’ve seen in California, Uber and Lyft will likely do everything in their power to prevent it from having to reclassify workers.

Last year, California passed state legislation called AB5 which requires gig-workers to be afforded basic rights like minimum wage, worker’s compensation, and more.

However, Uber and Lyft have continually contested the requirement and have collectively, along with some other companies, poured over $90 million into fighting the legislation.

In California, Uber says it will fight the lawsuit. A spokesperson for the company said: “At a time when California’s economy is in crisis with 4 million people out of work, we need to make it easier, not harder, for people to quickly start earning.” Though it seems Uber is missing the point as drivers don’t seem to earn enough to make it a viable job.

Last month, courts told taxi ride-hailing companies that they must comply with the laws by July 1 or face closure in the state. But again, Uber, Lyft, et al., continued to fight the regulator.

While it’s promising that Massachusetts is following in California’s footsteps and fighting for the rights of gig-workers, it’s more than likely going to face the same fight that the California regulators are currently facing. Change won’t come soon or easy.

HT – The Verge

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Taxi Live Africa brings Uber-like ehailing features to metered taxis

Since Uber arrived in South Africa in 2013, there’s been a fierce (and often violent) rivalry between those employing the technology and metered taxi drivers. But thanks to a new app developed in South Africa, this could be about to change.

Called Taxi Live Africa (TLA), the service and app lets metered taxi drivers perform trips requested by customers. Essentially, it’s bringing the Uber model to private taxis.

The reason for its development is clear: metered taxi operators need technology to compete in the evolving transportation industry, according to co-founder Luvuyo Ntshayi.

“Metered taxi operators have not had an app developed especially for them and their passengers,” he told Memeburn in an email.

“Ehailing has now become an established market but metered taxis were excluded from benefiting from this — in short, metered taxi drivers have been struggling to compete in a technology-led market.”

“Before TLA was established, I conducted numerous interviews with metered taxi operators in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town so that we gain real insights into their business challenges,” Nyashi continued.

“Not surprisingly, the one comment challenge among all of the people I met was that they had lost clients due to e-hailing. The gap in the market was evident and we believe that Taxi Live Africa will create a lot of opportunities not only for drivers but as we recruit more and more drivers, we will also be creating jobs within Taxi Live Africa as administrators in our offices.”

The service hasn’t had much time to mature though. The company was founded in 2017 by Ntshayi and business partner Soyiso Qotiwe, but only soft-launched in Durban in June 2019. Still, the company’s seen more than 700 registrations in the KwaZulu-Natal city thus far.
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Aesthetically, the app’s spiffy, swift, and modern. Lots of yellow is employed in UI elements, while users can adjust payment option, view fare estimates, and take advantage of offers from the primary screen.

It also has the basic features you’d expect in an ehailing app. This includes an in-app emergency button, live chat support, the ability to schedule rides ahead of time, and a built-in police emergency number.

TLA does have an exhaustive list of registration criteria for drivers too, including the ownership of a PDP, car registration documents from 2014, police clearance, and hailing operating documents. The company also wants drivers to be “willing to go for drivers training”.

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Amazon and Flipkart might have to give their source code to the Indian government

Written by : by IVAN MEHTA — 3 days ago in INDIA

Online retailers such as Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart might have to hand over their site’s source code and core algorithms to the Indian government. According to a report by Bloomberg, a new draft ecommerce policy that seeks to bring competitiveness in the market, list this as a mandate.

The draft bill also asks if companies are using “explainable AI” (XAI) — a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that makes solutions and methods understandable for humans. The bill tackles the question of storing the data locally, but leaves it open by saying that after consultation the government “will define the categories of e-commerce that would require mirroring or localization.”

The policy is not public yet, and it might take a while for it to be formalized. However, Bloomberg’s report suggests the Indian government will ask for more data access and transparency — a trend previously seen in draft data protection and content policing bills — from tech companies.

The idea of this bill is to create an ecommerce app solution watchdog that stops companies from creating monopolies and give Indian startups a boost.

Amazon and Flipkart will be closely watching developments of this bill as their future depends on it. India is already planning to mandate a 72-hour window for companies to hand over user data. It also reportedly wants unrestricted access to non-personal data of companies. That’s a tricky situation for major tech firms, as that might mean handing over the secret algorithms that their drive business. And don’t expect them to do that without a fight.

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The Comprehensive Analysis of On-Demand Delivery App Development Cost

At an unprecedented pace, the on-demand delivery apps have become a lifeline of people as they solve real-world problems in a couple of clicks. When hunger pangs, you want a taxi at doorstep, salon professional at home, or looking for the doctor on-demand, everything has inched closer to us with on-demand apps.

However, when the name of on-demand apps comes up, only one brand- Uber, that’s pops-up in the user’s mind at first. Well, it won’t go without saying that Uber has invented this on-demand model, which was later replicated and reinvented by various businesses in distinct ways. That’s why on-demand apps are sometimes referred to as Uber for X, where X can be any service delivered to the customers where they want and when they want.

You might be thinking about what are the magical ingredients added to the on-demand model that has beefed up the growth. Its speedy deliveries, lower prices than traditional vendors, frictionless payment, the mobile-first user experience, transparency, the independent contractors getting the job, and an actionable rating system that has cooked the recipe of iconic success.

Despite adding all the ingredients, all the businesses following the on-demand model won’t cherish the success equally and even failed desperately. The market analysis of failed companies like- Shyp, UberRush, or Doorman has shown that they have not done SWOT analysis aptly and performed over smartly, due to which they are trapped in their business idea. Don’t fret!

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How Taxi Dispatch Software Can Increase The ROI Of Your Business?

The traditional taxi business immune system to digitalization: We don’t know it, so we don’t want it.

But, the ignorance towards the technology revolution has put their survival into question. They are dying a slow death, losing the customers to mobile taxi businesses, and the revenue going southwards, all just due to the false strategy.

The sudden knock off by the taxi-hailing companies has taught a serious lesson to some of the traditional taxi business, that’s why they had started transforming the legacy businesses and turning the established businesses into mobile app businesses with taxi dispatch software.

Let’s understand the taxi dispatch solution in a nutshell:

The taxi dispatch system is a mobile application or software that connects the passengers ‘searching for the taxi’ with the drivers ‘looking to take the passengers for a ride’.

Just a single tap on mobile and the passengers can view the nearby drivers and book the taxi. When the passengers book the ride, the job allocation request is sent to all nearby drivers by the application and the driver who accepts the request first will get the next ride job.

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