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  • Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab hires former Indonesian police chief

    Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab hires former Indonesian police chief

    Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab said on Monday (Jan 30) it has appointed Indonesia’s former national police chief to oversee corporate governance and long-term plans for its biggest market.

    Grab said it plans to expand to more cities in Indonesia, grow its transport services and invest in a mobile payments platform.

    Badrodin Haiti, who was Indonesia’s chief of the National Police from April 2015 to July 2016, “brings extensive experience working with government stakeholders and ensuring aligned interests among different stakeholders,” the company said in a statement.

    Grab and its competitors, Uber of the United States and homegrown company Go-Jek, have faced regulatory obstacles in Indonesia.

    The government has ordered ride-hailing service providers to pass vehicle safety tests and get local partners, among other conditions.

    “As the technology and ride-hailing sectors evolve in Indonesia, Mr. Haiti will play a guiding role to ensure Grab contributes constructively to the implementation of new transport regulations and safety guidelines,” Grab said.

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  • Chinese Ride-Hailing Company Ucar Partners with BitTiger

    Chinese Ride-Hailing Company Ucar Partners with BitTiger

    Ucar, a major player in the Chinese ride-hailing and car rental market, has joined the global race to develop a road ready self-driving car. To compete for the best international talent, Ucar has opened a research outpost in Silicon Valley and partnered with online education platform BitTiger to host a deep-learning coding class and competition that offers winners cash prizes and a chance to interview with the company.

    Ucar (神州专车) booked approximately 15%1 of car chauffeur services in China in 2015, and are backed by Alibaba. They are based in Beijing, China and began aggressively expanding their research center in Silicon Valley last year by hiring experienced engineers from major Bay Area tech companies. The research center is part of a larger trend among Chinese companies, including tech giant Baidu, that are creating research outposts in Silicon Valley to gain a competitive talent advantage over domestic rivals.

    Ucar is responding to the huge market opportunity for self-driving cars in China where crippling traffic jams can keep city streets gridlocked for days2. Principal engineer of the Ucar Silicon Valley based research center, Zhong Hua, explains that Ucar’s self-driving car technology aims to “minimize traffic related deaths, reduce commute times, and make better use of cars left idly parked most of the day,” all goals that would have a big impact in China’s mega-cities.

    BitTiger is a US-based online learning platform for Chinese engineers that gained experience at elite tech companies to share their knowledge with Mandarin-speaking students around the world. These students are eager to gain access to a top education taught by industry experts not otherwise available to those outside of the best university programs.

    The course being launched by Ucar and BitTiger will provide candidates with fundamental knowledge of image recognition and deep learning techniques. Upon completion of the course, students will be challenged to accurately identify pedestrians, cars, and bicycles among images collected by Ucar’s test vehicles. The top three teams that most accurately and consistently identify these target objects will receive cash prizes and an opportunity to interview for a position at the Ucar Silicon Valley research center.

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  • RideCell Delivers Global Carsharing And Ridesharing Platform For Automakers

    RideCell Delivers Global Carsharing And Ridesharing Platform For Automakers

    RideCell, the developer of a Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform for leading automakers and transit providers globally, unveiled today at AutoMobility LA the worldwide release of its multiservice platform that allows car manufacturers to provide on-demand mobility when it’s needed and where it’s needed.

    By integrating ridesharing and carsharing into a single platform, RideCell makes it easy for car manufacturers to create and launch a premium mobility service in a matter of months.

    RideCell offers the ability for OEMs to brand and launch a standalone ridesharing service, a standalone carsharing service, or a service that offers both all from within a single integrated app experience. The white-label RideCell platform is a complete end-to-end solution and premium platform that automates every part of managing a ridesharing or carsharing operation, including: onboarding new riders, checking IDs, dynamic pricing, driver-rider matching, ride scheduling, payment processing, demand-supply balancing, personalized settings, and even referral programs and promotions. Using the RideCell platform, auto companies will be able to enter the carsharing market with a premium “free floating” carsharing service that allows customers to pick up and park cars anywhere within a service district.

    “Transportation is on the brink of a massive paradigm shift,” said Aarjav Trivedi, founder and CEO of RideCell. “We’re moving from a car ownership model to one where people order transportation for a specific purpose. Our expertise in powering mobility as a service since 2009 helps automakers become instant experts in carsharing and ridesharing. Our multiservice RideCell platform enables automakers to launch a service that provides choice, personalization, and convenience to every rider or driver.”

    The RideCell platform is being used by the BMW Group to power the ReachNow carsharing service. First introduced in April 2016, RideCell powers the service which has more than 370 BMW and MINI vehicles.

    RideCell is showcasing the multiservice platform for the first time publicly at AutoMobility LA in the Technology Pavilion in front of the West Hall at the LA Convention Center November 14-17. For more information about RideCell and its mobility services, please go to www.ridecell.com.

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  • Uber to Launch UberPOOL in Jakarta

    Uber to Launch UberPOOL in Jakarta

    PT Uber Teknologi Indonesia will launch uberPOOL service in Jakarta this week.

    President Director of PT Uber Teknologi Indonesia Mike Brown said that uberPOOL is a carpooling service in urban areas. According to him, it could result in a more economically efficient travel.

    “A saving of up to 50% of uberX tariff could be achieved and [it is] more economically efficient compared to regular taxis,” Brown said on Sunday, May 8, 2016, in Jakarta.

    He added that the service enables Uber partners to maximize the time at hand to travel. On the other hand, Jakarta will benefit from it through reduced congestion, pollution and less parking issue.

    Car or travel pooling exists among Indonesian people, he noted. Therefore, uberPOOL service will be launched in Jakarta and can be used in other cities in Indonesia.

    Brown claimed that UberPOOL has resulted in positive impacts to the cities where the service is available. According to him, people have been travelling with less number of cars.

    He made an example that Los Angeles has seen reduced mileage by 7.9 million miles of travel and reduced carbon dioxide emission by 1.4 metric tons.

    He believed that the carpooling service could reduce and even eliminate private car ownership.

    However, regulation could be a stumbling block for the service, Brown said. The service from Uber could operate if supported by the regulation, according to him. Regulation should be made to support a secure, comfortable, safe and humane transport, he said.

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  • Indonesian taxi firm Blue Bird joins hands with ride-hailing app Go-Jek

    Indonesian taxi firm Blue Bird joins hands with ride-hailing app Go-Jek

    Indonesia’s largest taxi operator Blue Bird Group said on Monday (May 9) that it plans to form a partnership with the country’s biggest online ride hailing app Go-Jek.

    The collaboration is expected to cover the areas of technology, payments and promotions.

    In a joint statement, the two firms said the partnership would increase the quality of their customer service and that the initiatives would focus on enhancing the transportation experience through a convenient mobile solution. The partnership would “accelerate Indonesia’s digital revolution and empower consumers”, they said.

    Mr Yoga Adiwinarto, country director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), said Blue Bird needs to have more reliable apps and will probably ask Go-Jek to develop them.

    He added: “Go-Jek will probably handle the Blue Bird apps, perhaps even put Blue Bird on the Go-Jek platform. More reliable apps will help taxi passengers, an improvement from the poor Blue Bird apps right now.”

    The two companies said they would announce further details about the collaboration soon.

    Monday’s announcement came after a protest in March, where thousands of Indonesian drivers from various taxi companies took to the streets of Jakarta speak up against the ride-hailing app industry, which is often perceived as a threat to the traditional transportation industry.

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