Reimagining the Transportation Industry for the Next Normal : Taxi App Market Post COVID-19
Published September 28, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the way companies operate in almost every sector, where the transport industry is the biggest victim affected by the pandemic. From taxi drivers to airlines, the overall demand has tumbled by 11% in March 2020.
It is clear, the coronavirus has affected the bottom lines and demanded an urgent need for transport companies to reconfigure their operations and navigate to the next normal with full resilience.
Though the report says post-COVID-19, the global ride-sharing market size is projected to grow at a Y-O-Y growth of 55.6% from 2020 to 2021, to reach USD 117.34 billion by 2021 from USD 75.39 billion in 2020 yet the projection for 2021 is estimated to be down by 2% as compared to pre-COVID-19 estimation. Source: Markets and Markets
The transport and automation companies have to rethink the growth drivers to disrupt the taxi-hailing and ride-sharing market.
Here, we attempt to cover the restructuring of the taxi app industry with the significant changes that will matter to companies to build and scale innovative methods and catalyze the reinvention of company during as well as post pandemic.
To better understand the concept, let’s start by analyzing how other leading automobile and taxi app companies have responded to the transportation challenges posed by Covid-19.
Leaps Taken By Key Taxi App Market Players in The Face of Crisis
Didi Chuxing
Built disinfection stations by installing a plastic shield between the front and rare seats of the car in China to isolate passengers from the driver.
Invested about USD 14.3 million in this safety measure that involves installing protective plastic sheets.
Uber
Announced a series of new safety features and key policies across their product offerings like photo-based verification of drivers every time they log in. The new camera feature in the Uber taxi app for Driver does not allow the photo to be clicked unless the camera detects the mask.
The other remarkable feature enables the rider or the driver to cancel the ride if either of them is not wearing the mask.
Uber has suspended its ride-pooling app UberPool to extend physical distancing.
Drivers will have to sanitize their cars after each ride and Uber will provide them free health and safety supplies.
Developed a new ‘Work Hub’ app to help drivers find substitute jobs.
Grab
Temporarily suspended GrabShare and GrabBike to encourage safe, social-distancing practices.
The touchless online payment option in the taxi app solution is helping customers to go cashless with GrabPay.
Introduced a ride cover policy with ‘Chubb’ to include coverage for Covid-19.
Subsidized masks for drivers on GrabBenefits.
Financial Assistance to affected drivers while their account is on hold.
Lyft
These were the steps taken by leading taxi-hailing companies to address COVID-19.
Distributed cleaning supplies like hand sanitizer and face masks to drivers for free.
Activated more than 500 partners through LyftUp to expand transportation access and avail free rides to those in urgent need.
Disinfects high contact surfaces at depots periodically.
Ola
Made mask compulsory and sanitization before and after ride for customers boarding the cab.
Limited only two passengers per ride.
Encouraged to make cashless payments to avoid contacts.
Gave 500 vehicles to the government for Doctors’ commutation and COVID-19 related activities.
Reinvent Through Smart Mobility Trends in Transportation
End To End Digitalization Through Taxi App Development Solution The lineup of touchless features in a taxi app solution ranging from photo-based (with mask) profile verification of drivers to contactless payments and SOS buttons to inform if they have come in interaction with COVID rider or driver, etc. are helping in improving the responsiveness and speed to market.
Mobility As A Service (MaaS)Mobility As A Service (MaaS) and Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) may leverage the benefits and functionally integrate the features provided by smart connected communities that facilitates extensive real-time data sharing and P2P communications, and contextual decision making through innovative technologies.
Increased Usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning in Transportation Apps The impact of Covid-19 has triggered a rise in AI applications for addressing the changing customer needs and preferences on the face of safety and hygiene. Here are the areas where AI will be used to battle pandemic effects.
Corporate decision making, planning, and management
Prediction and traffic/incidents detection models
Connected and autonomous vehicles
Temperature sensors for regulating the use of public transport
Optimization of operational efficiency during social distancing
Each of these areas will help in mitigating increased exposure to risk for minimizing human contact, optimizing operational efficiency during physical distancing by predicting the demand and supply of service. It can also be used to check the human temperatures before they step in to the use of public transport.
Is your transport company’s crisis-response efforts getting deployed in full motion? OR Are you dealing with acute slowdown and pullback in operations and battling to cope-up with the crisis with the help of mobility solutions? Codiant can help you in resolving issues at every business touchpoint with full scale, pace and depth of action needed with its advanced taxi app development solution forged with innovative technologies and future-proof features.
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