Ridesharing

In February 2023, we (the Onde team) organized our second major offline international conference. This was the Ride.Right.Now: Million Rides Club conference held in Dubai. The event was aimed at taxi business owners and other major ride-hailing and on-demand business industry players. Ride.Right.Now was a major success: the conference had…

How we improved Heetch’s reliability with a radius and code to verify pickup. — I’m a Product Manager at Heetch, a ride-hailing platform operating across Europe and Africa. Within the Booking and Ride Experience team, one of our objectives is to offer the most reliable ride experience to every passenger and driver on the platform. …

Riding during the night is one of my favorite hobbies. I love nights. The nights are different than days. In contrast to days, the nights are quiet, dark, without any special colors. You can walk, shout, and feel the slap of cold weather that is going to hardly kiss your…

In the realm of ridesharing, we find ourselves face to face with the phenomenon of deadhead miles, or, as we like to call them, the lonely stretches of road where your car plays a solo symphony while you return home empty-handed, devoid of passengers. …

This is a 2-part story. Amit and I met at Grab in 2017. We joined right when Grab was going head-to-head with Uber to win the APAC market. We lovingly recall those times as “The Uber War”. Later, Grab would face many more wars including the latest “Jericho (Gojek) War”…

By Katie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh and Declan Cullen — Uber’s ride-hail app first arrived in Washington, D.C. just over a decade ago. Today, Uber is a household name, but much of its original sheen has worn off. Even the Silicon Valley mantra of “move fast and break things” now sounds more like a warning than a rallying cry. Many…

TNCs, such as Uber, Lyft, and Via, are sometimes praised as “the future of public transportation” since they offer a flexible, practical alternative that ostensibly eliminates the need for automobiles. These are frequently referred to as “ride-sharing” or “ride-hailing” services, with the two phrases being used interchangeably. …

Order in chaos — Making the ordinary extraordinary — Locomotion, movement, energy. These are the motivators, that drive us to function in our daily lives. Let me ask you a simple question, how much of your daily life do you spend solely transitioning from one place to another- more than you would like you say? …

The ride-hailing industry has made traveling easier and more convenient. But did you know that there’s a lot of complex technology involved in finding the nearest available driver in real-time? It’s not an easy task because there are many things to consider like traffic and road conditions, as well as…