Fasttrack Taxi Tariff

Taking inventory of the best taxi service in the town. Founded in 2010 and expanding to over 80 major global locations, the San Francisco-based San Francisco-based firm is represented in five major India locations, most recently Mumbai and Chennai (last month). Your service is built on a cross-platform application that keeps track of your position on your Global Positioning System (GPS) and transmits a pick-up confirmation to the cabin (from a Merc or BMW to an Innova, Altis, Camry or Accord - depending on luck) closest to you.

Uber's Chennai Director, Swathy Prithivi, revealed that Uber is currently mainly using Innova and Accord in its vehicle fleets, and added that Chennai service has not yet achieved the levels needed for high-end vehicles such as Mercedes and Jaguar. Founded 13 years ago in Chennai, they receive around 25,000 phone calls daily and have dedicated desks in Tambaram, Perambur, Central and at the airports.

You have a variety of automobiles like the Tata Indica, Toyota Liva, Indigo Dzire, Toyota Etios, Mahindra Verito, Ford Fiesta, Chevrolet Tavera, Mahindra Xylo and the always reliable Toyota Innova. Gumidipudi on the edge of town - where we also have cars," Jayaraj states. This six-year-old firm, which has around 7,000 taxis in seven towns across the state, came to Chennai last June with 200 taxis.

Featuring three automobiles (Toyota Etios, Tata Manza and Ford Classic) on sale, their service is similar to Uber's (they also have a special all-platform app), apart from some unique advantages. "There are also connections to auto distributors for bi-weekly maintenance of cars," he added. NTL Taxi was launched in 2013 with over 3,000 taxis (150 of them owned).

They, too, have activated global positioning system routings in their automobiles, ranging from Tata Indica, Mahindra-Renault Logan, and Ford Fiesta to Ford Ikon, Tata Sumo Grande, and Mahindra Xylo, to a tempo traveler. A fire extinguisher, flashlights and an umbrella are some of the other important things you will find in your car.

They wait their car every months with phone conversations coming mainly from Koyambedu and the airports. Launched on Tamil New Year's Day (14 April), the new Welcome Call Taxi enables clients to select a car of their choosing via a smart-phone application. Approximately 200 vehicles from Ford, Hyundai, Maruti, Toyota and Tata are equipped with on-board guidance via satellite (GPS) and television in the driver's cabin.

The three-year-old Bangalore-based firm, which was founded in the Chennai town last October, owns around 600 automobiles in Chennai, none of which are theirs. GPS units, which collect information (time, fees, routes, etc.) from the point at which a client arrives, are used to service vehicles on a monthly basis by use.

"We' re going to integrate a function known as OLA Money Watch similar to other on-line watch services," says Anand Subramanian, Director of Enterprise Communication. In Chennai, their automobiles are initially limousines (such as Swift Dzire, Mahindra Verito, Toyota Etios and Tata Indigo) and their pilots have been professional educated by the firm.

Another service benefit is the ability to track missing calls.