Drop ride is the fourth product launched by DDT in the field of mobile travel after "DDT taxi", "DDT car" and DDT enterprise travel service, which was officially launched on June 1, 2015.
1 Background
Data from the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security shows that as of the end of 2014, China's car ownership amounted to 154 million, and there were more than 246 million car drivers. Such a huge number of private cars puts tremendous congestion pressure on urban traffic during peak commuting hours.
The 2014 Mobile Travel White Paper released by Tsinghua University's Media Research Laboratory shows that both professional cab drivers and private car owners have shown a positive willingness to carpool, and 85.5% of passengers have even indicated that they are willing to carpool through taxi software under the premise of saving taxi fare and reducing waiting time.
2 Through the process
In May 2014, Cheng Wei, CEO of DDT, had announced his involvement in the online carpooling business, and said that this type of product is already in the process of rushing.
In April 2015, the recruitment program for DDT ride owners officially began, also signaling that DDT's carpooling online was not far off.
June 1, 2015, drop drop ride officially launched.
On July 2, 2015, DDT's ride-sharing business was launched simultaneously in 137 cities, including Guangzhou, Tianjin, Wuhan, Changsha and Xiamen.
On November 28, 2016, DDT Hitchhiker went online with the function of passengers booking round-trip trips with one click, which is applicable to both intra-city hitchhiking and cross-city hitchhiking.
3 Software Introduction
Drop Hitchhiker is located in the city "*** enjoy travel", using big data algorithms and advanced matching technology, one-to-one connection between each willing to companion owners and passengers. The owner can preset the route through the product options; passengers can also enter their own pick-up and drop-off locations through the APP; the hitchhiking product will match the owner and passengers according to the routes of the two sides, so as to realize the purpose of the hitchhiking companions.
Drop ride-sharing is now online in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Tianjin and other 26 cities, users are expected to be able to drop taxi app embedded in the "ride-sharing" to realize carpooling trips in succession this month.
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4 Charges
Dropshunfeng car does not charge any fees to the owner and passengers, and the fares shared by passengers belong to the owner. According to the local traffic conditions and the cost of vehicle use in each city, DDT Hitchhiker has set different charges for different city owners, with a starting price of between $5 and $10, and a mileage sharing fee of basically $1 per kilometer.
5 subsidy program
The subsidy program on the side of the drop is: for the owners of the dropshunfeng car, the drop gives a subsidy of 50 yuan to the newly registered users, and then 100 yuan after the completion of the first single, and if you recommend other people can also get another 20 yuan. And according to common sense deduction, the drop will also give the first ride on the wind car passengers nearly "free" attraction. Compared with the high subsidies for the owners of the dropshunfeng car, the subsidies of other carpooling companies are a bit small.