Uber Now offers Motorcycle Taxi Service In Bangkok

Uber provides motorbike cab service in Bangkok to dominate the transportation market of a region where it's rivals are leading.

Uber has begun offering its very first bike cab service in Bangkok. A city in which perennial congestion causes rush-hour traffic speeds in the capital of Thailand of only 11 kmph. The American application based taxi service provider that started to serve as a limousine facility in the affluent San Francisco Bay Area is now interested in tackling the automobiles that a large number of Bangkok's residents depend on streets that have been jam-packed with traffic.

It states it is capable of untangling the traffic snarls resulting in two-hour daily travel. The measure might also play a role in boosting the presence of Uber in an area where its chief competitors’ coalition leads. Grab continues to lead most of the Southeast Asian region, and successfully established ranks with Didi Kuaidi of China, Ola of India and hometown competitor of Uber technologies ‘Lyft’ to predict its growth in the area.

Aggressive global growth has been embarked by the startup, aided by lots of money in financing that boosted the valuation of the startup to $60bn – the largest amongst privately managed tech startups. CEO Travis Kalanick aggressively spent to grow the international network of the transporter and enter the Grab’s markets in the regions, from Vietnam and Malaysia to Singapore. Recently, in Philippines it started to offer “uberHOP” which offers commuters heading towards similar direction during rush hours in return for a flat fare.

Up till now, it been sticking to knitting, developing network of driving partners with more vans and cars. Thailand might prove to be ideal country to examine a network of motorcycles. Three-wheeled automobiles and motorcycle cabs are often sighted across the state and are a part of the urban life. The “UberMOTO” facility will play catch-up to own Grab Taxi Holdings Pte's competing service. In other parts of the region, Go-Jek is leading the motorcycle cab market of Indonesia

Ride sharing businesses continue to run their operations in an ill-defined region in a large number of states when it comes to enabling of privately owned automobiles to offer paid transportation facility, an activity conventionally confined to rental companies and licensed cabs.

The American startup nevertheless collaborates with the traffic police of Thailand to make people aware regarding motorcycle security – including the need to wear helmets and is promising to screen all those who log up for riding a motorbike to provide its new facility appropriately.

Uber claimed to be the economical option in the area by charging fares starting at only 28 U.S cents (10 baht).