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Ordering a taxi has never been very sexy: calling a supplier, waiting for a response, describing the place you are situated with unpronounceable street names… Responding to the increasing online service requests, Intelligent Apps GmbH provided an innovative taxi booking system. MyTaxi is an application that has been developed to simplify the order of a taxi, make it convenient, quick and transparent. You can download the app for free, order the closest taxi and track approach via Google Map. No need of preorder, no need to call twice to know if the taxi is actually coming and where it is. Besides, you can rate your driver up to 5 stars. For now, the application implemented in Germany, Austria, and Spain, is available for iPhone, iPad and Android, but will be available soon for Windows 7.

MyTaxi brings together taxi drivers and their passengers faster and more efficiently than any existing booking systems. In addition, by using myTaxi, leisure and business travellers will benefit from several advantages:

• Safety features: passengers can find a taxi while remaining in a safe location. 
• Easy to use, this application being very intuitive. 
• Possibility to calculate the cost, myTaxi being based on a built-in fare estimator. 
• No annoying ads because myTaxi is a proven technology committed to ad-free operation of its App for both drivers and passengers.  
• Convenient for disabled people, particularly mute and non-language speaking people because no call needed.

MyTaxi is a new way to consider the taxi service and interactions between taxi drivers and their passengers. Future improvements are already planned by the myTaxi team like the multiple ordering system allowing a taxi to be ordered using any smartphone via the handset‘s mobile Internet connection.

However, some issues still need to be improved: myTaxi needs an Internet connection, which supposes that foreigners would have to pay extra fees to be connected and that you cannot use the app in places without connection. Moreover, customers can see pictures and information of the drivers before ordering, it could enhance some discrimination among them.  Finally, the app doesn’t cover the entire country; consequently, you still have to keep a Taxi call centre’s number in your mobile.

After this overview, would you be ready to use myTaxi?

Source: myTaxi (2012). myTaxi website Retrieved April 18, 2012, from myTaxi: http://www.mytaxi.net/en/passengers/how-it-works.html
Keywords: Taxi, Application, Online order, Driver