KDDI, a major mobile phone company, announced that it will start a flat-rate, short-distance dispatch service nationwide in partnership with a high-speed bus operator.
The aim is to improve convenience by using data on the flow of people obtained through smartphones.
KDDI will partner with "WILLER," which operates high-speed buses, to establish a new company and start a service that dispatches vehicles according to the place and destination where the user rides.
Originally, the bus operating company provided services in Tokyo and other places, but the new company will expand nationwide as a flat-rate service that can be used unlimited times if you pay 5000 yen per month, with a radius of 2 km as a guide. I am aiming.
In addition, we would like to improve convenience by utilizing data that analyzes the movement and flow of smartphone users, and to capture the needs of easily moving short distances such as elderly people who have returned their driver's licenses and child-rearing generations. ..
KDDI President Makoto Takahashi met in Tokyo and said, "As a new service for'choi riding'that moves around the living area, we would like to solve various social issues such as anxiety about the movement of the elderly."