Cab services sector is in the driver’s seat and has become a real business with professional services. Usually, travelers were at the mercy of taxi or auto rickshaw drivers once they got out of the airport, railway station, or bus stations or for that matter anywhere. Now the app on the smartphone can help a traveler book a real cab and travel without any hassles of entering into a verbal tension creating spat with taxi wallahs or auto ricksha wallahs when they move or need to hire for travel within a city.
With GPS enabled services and apps installed in the mobile phone, these services have become very popular in the towns and customer is getting tension free journey. Particularly in the bigger cities of India like Delhi or Mumbai where travel distances are getting larger and longer, a wrong route could put the person in a problem. Now with GPS enabled cabs, one can travel comfortably without getting lost and can track the route to the destination plus the added advantage of company fixed per kilometer fare, it makes it far easy and safer to travel. A look at the 10 top companies that are offering cab services across different cities in India.
10 Best Cab Services In India | Taxi Booking Apps (2022)
1) Ola Cabs
Ola cabs is an international brand and with the introduction of mobile apps, Ola Cabs has become very famous by adapting to this method of booking a taxi and is already a market leader. With a magnificent number of cabs plying as its franchisees, users get different cabs from a small car to a sedan to travel. It has also been observed most of the Ola cab drivers are well mannered and speak a decent language without and a customer will feel happy and safe traveling. Especially, the lot of women travel alone these days and having a good safe transport car to pick and drop an added advantage of safety, as the journey is continually tracked.
With easy to use app and options to pay by cash, credit and debit cards, city traveling has become hassle free and comfortable at reasonable prices with fare structure for standard cars at around Rs. 100 for the first 4 kilometers and then Rs. 2.75/- per additional kilometer traveled above 4 kilometers, which is a very reasonable. The cost of traveling in a sedan or premium car is Rs. 150/- to Rs. 200/- for first 4 kilometers, which is again a very reasonable for the customer.
2) Uber Cabs
Uber cabs again is an international brand and got presence across 350 plus cities worldwide. Uber in India provides well maintained and well behaved drivers with a reasonably competitive fare structure with roughly Rs. 100 as base fare and minimum fare is Rs. 150/-. Uber services can be booked through mobile apps and payment through pay, e-wallet is accepted apart from cash.
Being international brands, the processes of training drivers and customer queries are quite professional and helpful and useful.
3) Meru Cabs
One of the largest radio taxi operators across all the cities in India, Meru Cabs was one of the first services to gain popularity in India with splendid customer services and having a large following with clientele from airport areas of all the Indian cities as they focused heavily on this segment of travelers.
They also operate widely within all other areas of the cities too but certainly do have a good chunk of premium customers who only prefer and trust Meru Cabs for their airport journeys.
Usually, most Indian airports are 15-20 kilometers from the city hubs, so comfortable travel in their fleet of sedans is an added advantage for customers. Payment can be made by cash or credit card. Services are good with only air conditioned cars plying in its fleet.
4) Easy Cabs
Most major cities in India Easy cabs also operates and it is easily seen everywhere. The fare structure is slightly higher than Ola and Uber cabs. The Easy cabs company has been around for quite a long time since the year 2000 and has a strong, loyal regular customer base under their belt in all the major cities of India, namely, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, and Hyderabad. Easy cabs have a fleet of over 6000 cars, and they indeed are readily available.
5) Star City Taxi
Star City Taxi is a GPS enabled services with an excellent track record of operations in the IT city of Bangalore in India since 1998 and has a loyal customer base ostensibly for their reliability and the length of time they have been around serving their customers. They offer a wide array of cars from standard to premium cars at reasonable tariffs.
6) Tab Cab
Tab Cab services are an efficient Mumbai leading company and is locally widely used by the corporate offices for ferrying their clients on their business trips. Reasonably priced and an excellent tie up with the local corporate for corporate travelers, Tab Cab operates in a niche segment and well known for the loyal customer base.
7) Mega Cabs
Multiple city operations and a very efficient radio taxi services were one of the earliest entrants into the radio taxi service. Mega Cabs operates in the Northern Indian cities of Delhi, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar along with Kolkata in the east India and Bengaluru in south India. Famous for its safe and highly well-trained staff, Mega Cab has a large and loyal customer base due to its superior and timely services to clients and it operates in the highly industrialized hub of Punjab and Delhi where user awareness about comfort and safety takes priority over everything else.
8) Wings Radio Cabs
Pune based company operating in various segments, city travel, corporate travelers to the nearby industrial hubs, and also offering car pooling services within Pune city. It is a niche player in the market.
9) City Cool Cab
Another niche player operating from Mumbai, it was one of the earliest cab services in the niche ‘cool cab” services for pooled car service, corporate travelers to the nearby industrial hubs of Pune and outskirts of Mumbai. In Mumbai, City Cool Cab is a very visible brand with a variety of cars in its fleet.
10) Taxi For Sure
Another multi-city radio taxi service with web based booking and app booking is also another niche operator with a good customer base. Taxi For Sure has multi-city operations in cities like Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad with an excellent base of corporate clients.
Conclusion
The above 10 listed companies are niche players and the scope for the Cab industry in India widened in the past 3-4 years when companies like Ola, Meru, and Uber managed to bring in professionalized services and increased the market by making the ordinary man opt to travel by call taxi services by making it more affordable in better-maintained cars.
Today the common man does not need to fear when he goes out, as he has a tension free, timely form of intercity movement with the cabs offering better services than the yellow-black taxis and the bumpy auto rickshaw rides. The day is not far when most of the Tier-2 cities will also get the benefit of professional cab services with well-trained drivers in well maintained cars which make travel a pleasure in India and will give more impetus to the tourism industry in India.
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