Tantangan Easy Taxi Memenangkan Pasar Indonesia

Belakangan ini layanan pemesanan taksi mulai marak di Indonesia. Aplikasi mobile seperti Easy Taxi, yang didukung oleh Rocket Internet, memasuki pasar Indonesia dan mulai mengubah cara orang memesan taksi. Pemesanan taksi tak lagi melalui operator atau menunggu di pinggir jalan, tetapi cukup melalui aplikasi yang ada di genggaman. Metode pemesananan taksi dengan cara online ini bisa menjadi lebih cepat karena didasarkan kepada pencocokkan lokasi antar konsumen dan pengemudi taksi.

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mTransport DIY : An Application for Transportation Info in Yogyakarta

Few days ago, I got the information that Department of Transportation, Communication, and Information DIY officially released an application dealing with transportation information in Yogyakarta as called mTransport DIY for Android platform. This application developed as collaboration between Department of Transportation, Communication, and Information with Gamatechno.

From the UI, this application reminds us to an application in iOS. There are six quite complete features about transportation in Yogyakarta. The first one is Dishub Update (the news are officially from Department of Tansportation, Communication, and Transportation), city bus lane info, TransJogja lane, train schedule, airplane schedule, and CCTV for monitoring Yogyakarta’s traffic in some spots.

Talk about the technical aspect of this application, on city bus lane info and TransJogja lane, the schedule is made statically. In addition, on train schedule, it scraps from official site of PT KAI, unfortunately the back-end information about detail schedule and ticket price on PT KAI official website is so poor. For airplane schedule information feature, Gamatechno recaps it from all Adi Sucipto airport schedule by making their own back-end. In addition, they only use CCTV service form Department of Transportation, Communication, and Information, which are only on 7 spots in Yogyakarta, to monitor Yogyakarta’s traffic.

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