The songs of the 90s evoking nostalgia are loved again, and the old objects with touches of old memories are in the limelight as "Newtro (New+Retro)." However, intangible services hardly come back once they are forgotten. In T map, there is one service that had been forgotten but revived. Guess what? That is T map Taxi. Many users sought the taxi services of another ride hailing company, which was launched one month earlier than T map Taxi, in April of 2015. Witnessing this phenomenon, we were not sure whether T map Taxi, would be succesful and deeply pondered over the issue. Thankfully, thousands of taxi drivers were still logging in to our app waiting for passengers.
When it comes to taxis in the city, their supply needs to be controlled in terms of environment and city management. When infrastructure of public transportation was not enough, taxis used to be the most convenient means of transportation. However, the amount of taxis increased up to 6.77 units per 1,000 people, and this means that taxis in our country surprisingly outnumber those of Paris, New York and London. In proportion to supply surplus, income of drivers decreased, so they struggle to secure customers, for every minute counts. They literally fight for seconds. Nonetheless, from the perspective of passengers, taxis are hardly available when it is urgently needed. It is not easy to stand in uncomfortable silence when the passenger's only option is the taxi driver. Even though T map Taxi is unable to solve chronic problems of taxi industry, we believed that improved taxi service quality through new attempts would be helpful to both passengers and drivers.
We devote ourselves to rigorous development of services, through lengthy debates about the best way to satisfy both passengers and drivers. Passengers want to take a taxi from a desired place at certain desired times, while drivers are forced to move towards somewhere at every moment. Both parties have their needs and suggest. Beyond the traditional options such as "the waiting nearby taxi" or "the empty taxi passing by," we try to study a variety of preferences and patterns of passengers to give T map Taxi an identity with superior values. Moreover, we make an effort to give meaning to each encounter between the passenger and the driver beyond the mere coincidence of catching a taxi.