Taxi dispatch “Drip Drop” area expansion with application 20:39 on September 25 in 20 prefectures
With a vehicle allocation service that calls a taxi using a smartphone app, China's Diddy, which entered Japan last year, will be able to use it in Niigata, etc., and expand the service to 20 prefectures within the year. Announced plans to do.
In September of last year, Drip set up a joint venture with Softbank to start a vehicle dispatch service in Japan, and so far has contracted with 310 taxi operators in 12 prefectures such as Tokyo and Osaka. .
A meeting was held on the 25th before the first year after entering the Japanese market, and the plan was made to expand the service to 20 prefectures by the end of the year so that it could be newly used in Niigata.
The service is a mechanism that allows a person who wants to use a taxi to enter a departure and destination in the smartphone app and call a nearby taxi. AI = artificial intelligence is used for matching passengers and taxis.
“In the past year, the name recognition has increased and the number of users has increased. In the future, we would like to develop technology that can understand where passenger demand is, using AI, etc. "
The conference also announced that it would make a business alliance with map giant Zenrin, and would like taxi drivers to choose safer and more efficient travel routes by using high-precision map information that reflects traffic information. That is.