Case Study: Mobile Application
Taxi hailing App Development
Cab-hailing app aimed at users with & without internet access for African cities
Taxi hailing App Development
| Industry | Travel/Transportation |
| Customer | HelloCabs |
| Project | Taxi Booking App |
| Project Type | Mobile Application |
| Technologies Objective | PHP, PhoneGap, MSSQL |
| Customer Location | Botswana, Africa |
Taxi hailing app Hello Cabs connects the modern day cab customer to the modern day cab driver in African cities.
It also offers cab-hailing experience for customers without a smartphone or limited data connectivity with a Customer Care App for agents.
About Client
Hello Cabs is a self-funded start-up operating from Gaborone, Botswana which has tried adapting the taxi hailing technology model to the African market by developing a hybrid app which also aims at catering to users without internet access or smartphones by setting up a call center which arranges the trip in the same way the user would do via the smartphone app.
Quick Facts
| Industry: | Travel/Transportation |
| Customer: | HelloCabs |
| Customer Locaton: | Botswana, Africa |
| Project: | Taxi Hailing App |
| Type: | Mobile Application |
| Technologies: | PHP, PhoneGap, MSSQL |
| Completion Date: | Early 2015 |
| Key value: | A hybrid mobile app using PhoneGap for Android and iPhone platforms |
Project Summary
The Hello Cabs Mobile Application allows users to check availability of nearest cabs and book cabs. Customers can set up pick-up location and drop-off location on the app and process their request. The request is seamlessly fed to nearby drivers simultaneously and quickly accepted. A route from driver location to customer destination via customer location is created and the customer is able to keep track of their cab throughout this route.
Project Features
The solution developed consists of 3 App versions:
Once a user launches the Customer App, the Map interface on the Home Page displays cab drivers within a specific range of the user (say 15km). When a cab is requested via the Customer App, the associated cab driver gets a notification on his Driver App. The driver can accept the request from the user and navigate to the pick-up location.
Once a cab driver accepts the request, the customer receives a push notification with cab driver details such as driver name, photo, mobile number, email address and cab number. The user is then able to track location coordinates of the driver on the Map interface until arrival for pick-up.
The cab driver can process billing request at the end of successful trips and also receive ratings from customer.
Technical Snapshot
Related Reading
How to Develop a Taxi Hailing App Like Uber
Developing a taxi app like Uber is a much sought after trend lately by both entrepreneurs and enterprises alike. Inspired by the success of Uber, many a time we get requests to develop similar taxi booking apps for start-ups, fleet owners or transport companies looking to expand their established taxi businesses in cities around the world. Read more
