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How Can A Radio Taxi Solution Improve Your Taxi Business?

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Nitin Lahoti

The taxi industry has undergone a tremendous change over the past few years. With the introduction of taxi-hailing services like Uber and Lyft, people don’t need to wait for hours to board a taxi or public transport. The way these on-demand taxis are providing us the ease of moving is remarkable.

While we enjoy booking cabs anytime on demand, there’s another player in the transportation industry that is joining the mobile app trend to manage its already established manual dispatch process - Radio Taxis.

Radio taxis were really popular in the 1990s when it brought a new level of comfort and convenience in the public transport industry. People could dial a number and book a cab to the desired location without any hassle. Today, most of the radio taxi services have adopted radio taxi dispatch system and rely on mobile apps for their operation.

In India, the radio cabs made their way during the mid-1990s in various metro cities like Delhi and Mumbai. Different Indian players and international players joined in the business which was ultimately transformed by the likes of Uber and Ola. Various private players joined the radio taxi business, and the industry began to experience high demand and growth. In fact, radio cab service became to be the top growing business in the Indian transportation sector. Various companies such as Easy Cabs, Meru Cabs, Mega Cabs, and others introduced their own fleet of cars and many drivers signed up with the promise of high earnings.

Today the vast majority of the radio cab businesses have adapted themselves to new ways of on-demand economy and use a mobile app to facilitate their operations. In this blog, we will take a look at how radio taxi works and makes money.

What Is a Radio Taxi?

A radio taxi is generally operated by a private company that either owns their own fleet or works on a franchise basis. The cabs work on radio signals which are used to locate a taxi and communicate with the drivers.

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