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Improving relationships with your regulator and your target audience – A few tips

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Taxi & FHV. Improving relationships with your regulator and your target audience A few tips. Feb 18, 2015. Diane Bertolin & Malachi Hull. Taxicab companies were found flat-footed to compete with these TNC’s’ well-executed public relations/social media campaigns. Uber and Lyft became media darlings with their slick and sexy websites. To boot, they drew a picture of the taxicab industry as backwards, clunky, uncaring, and unaccountable. Uber specifically decided that name-calling would help its...The media...

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Taxi & FHV. And would you like to receive our bi-annual magazine? Why don’t you register now? We’d like to hear from you. You’d be surprised how international the Taxi and FHV industry really is. Although by nature the Taxi and FHV industry is a local, regional or at most national industry. With many local, regional and national problems, ideas and solutions. But also with a great many (and a growing number of) international similarities. That’s why we would like to hear from you. Taxi Stockholm uses mul...

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UberPOP banned in Germany

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Taxi & FHV. UberPOP banned in Germany. Mar 18, 2015. Just when taxi drivers in Amsterdam -fed up by the lack of policing of UberPOP- were attacking UberPOP drivers and Uber offices in Paris and Brussels were raided for evidence of illegal activities, the Frankfurt Regional Court dealt Uber an even bigger blow: as of now all UberPOP activities in Germany are banned and the UberPOP business model is illegal. 8220;What does the verdict mean for us? He added that “It would be a good thing if Uber now f...

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Taxi & FHV. The big misconception about Uber. Danish lecturer and commentator Jonathan Løw happily uses Uber but he says it’s decidedly wrong when people see Uber as an example of disruption. It’s more about the deliberate use of a legal grey area, he writes. There are at least three reasons that Uber is not a disruptive company. Before you get totally annoyed(…). Public transport: at the heart of the new mobility world. Patni: Don’t let Uber keep flouting taxi-industry rules. Florence Swanson has lived ...

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Transport ministry inspectors (IL&T) raid Uber offices in Amsterdam

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Taxi & FHV. Transport ministry inspectors (IL&T) raid Uber offices in Amsterdam. Mar 26, 2015. Transport ministry inspectors from the taxi inspection service IL&T on Thursday lunchtime raided the Amsterdam offices of online taxi service Uber, a move the US company described as a ‘warning to international start-ups’ not to set up shop in the Dutch capital. Government inspectors raid one of Uber’s main national and international hubs: Amsterdam. Photo: rtvnh.nl. Taxelco acquires Taxi Diamond in Montreal.

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TAXIintell Update 2015: Cooperation in times of challenge

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Taxi & FHV. TAXIintell Update 2015: Cooperation in times of challenge. Apr 27, 2015. Noortje Smit, Programme Manager of Amsterdam’s Taxi Team had everyone talking about TTO’s at the end of the day, after she had welcomed the participants to her city and had given a quick outline of the success of the TTO-approach. Noortje Smit. Mikael Hedlöf (CEO Samport) indicated a few different ways payment systems might develop and suggested being able to process a number of different forms of payment in the taxi&#46...

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Turkish Karsan moves its marketing and sales to Italy

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Taxi & FHV. Turkish Karsan moves its marketing and sales to Italy. Feb 24, 2015. Turin-based Karsan-Italy will engage in the marketing, sales and aftersales activities for Karsan-branded vehicles in Western Europe. The Karsan bus-‘family’ will be marketed from Italy. From left to right: the JEST low-floor urban minibus, in the middle its larger brother the ATAK and the STAR. Taxelco acquires Taxi Diamond in Montreal. Third TPEP-provider in New York taxis: Flywheel. TLPA and ATIA join GTN. Some of his Eng...

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HOTREC and IRU join forces

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Taxi & FHV. HOTREC and IRU join forces. Feb 24, 2015. The trade association of the European hospitality industry, HOTREC and IRU are working together to promote innovation and a level playing field for all service providers in the fields of hospitality and passenger road transport. HOTREC and the IRU call on public authorities across Europe to implement policy initiatives that effectively address unregulated or illegal service providers of tourism accommodation or for-reward ride-sharing platforms. T...

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Taxi & FHV. Taxelco acquires Taxi Diamond in Montreal. Taxelco has purchased Taxi Diamond, the biggest taxi fleet in Montreal. This transaction, which combines the strengths of two innovation-focused players, will allow Taxelco to step up its modernization strategy to meet the needs of Montrealers looking for safe, fast, and efficient professional taxi service which is available round the clock everywhere on the island(…). New study: Car drivers are 4kg heavier than cyclists. Uber Technologies Inc. a...

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Keynote speech – ‘Horse Drawn to Hand Held – The Changing Face of Passenger Transport’

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Taxi & FHV. Keynote speech ‘Horse Drawn to Hand Held The Changing Face of Passenger Transport’. May 6, 2015. Jeremy Butler (Independent Taxi and Private Hire Consultant) provided a great kick-off for the 2015 TAXIintell Update conference, drawing his knowledge from 20 years working in the UK’s private hire (Addison-Lee), taxi (One Transport/RTG) and app-sector (Hailo). Below is a summary. Is it a corporate product? Jeremy Butler: Stay strong. Quality will always win. TAXIintell Update 2015 – photos.