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Apps and cooperatives compete for passengers and taxi drivers

05/02/2014

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Applications that allow order a taxi by phone are increasingly popular . Easy Taxi states serving nearly half of the 33,000 taxis in Rio fleet and has a hundred thousand registered taxi drivers in 23 countries , the Taxibeat , 20 000 drivers , and 99Taxis , 30,000 in Brazil . Even the lawyer Nilza Ribeiro , 61 , who wants to not surrender to novelty, asks taxis in Central Coop Rio de Janeiro , which develops its own app , after losing drivers and customers :

- For me , it's a matter of comfort and safety .

The entrepreneur Bruno Bezerra , 29 , replaced the traditional service companies since installed the program on your smartphone :

- In cooperative , I called and they lingered 15 minutes to return . Sometimes , the connection was to say he had no taxi at the time . In the application, the response is immediate and proximity . If does not have one , just use other software .

The cabbie Elton Araujo , 35 , emerged from a cooperative in which he paid R$ 183 per week , or at least R$ 732 per month , after realizing that he could more customers with the help of technology . The driver uses the Easy Taxi Taxibeat programs , and 99taxis and pay no more than R$ 2 in the race that can by easily:

- Most are free, and I paid a fixed amount , even if not caught customers .
Now , payment is proportional , and I'm less time with the car empty .


Read more : http://extra.globo.com/noticias/economia/aplicativos-cooperativas-disputam-passageiros-motoristas-de-taxi-11504390.html#ixzz2sRkFGZa3


Source : The Globe - Online

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