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The total number of MaaS (Mobility-as-a-Service) platform users globally is forecast to grow b y over fivefold by 2021 compared with 2019, resulting in worldwide market reach to over 1.3 million users in 2021, according to new research.

Taxi operator 13cabs has introduced a new Quick Ride service enabling passengers using Apple Pay to "digitally hail" a ride with their iPhone.

Ride-share company Uber has overtaken the taxi industry in the battle for marketshare, with a greater proportion of Australians now using Uber compared with taxis, according to newly published research.

Ride-sharing provider Uber is set to overtake traditional taxis as Australia’s preferred private transportation service, according to new research.

Uber has achieved strong growth in the Australian market in six years of operation, with nearly 4.3 million people aged 14+ now travelling in an average three months, as the the ride-sharing service continues to take marketshare from taxis.

Cabcharge has officially rolled out its Digital Pass on Android to allow corporate travellers to pay their fares via Google Play.

With new Frollo stats showing Australians are "spending three times more on ride-sharing services than on taxis", it follows that not keeping a close eye on in-app and tap-and-go payments can cost you.

Sydney-based start-up TaxiLive has partnered with Telstra to launch a custom designed digital billboard for the rear of premium taxis.

Taxi service provider 13CABS has launched a new mobile app and an improved booking system that will allow a driver to see a passenger's destination only when the latter boards the cab.

Taxi payment company Cabcharge has levelled the primary blame for a decline in full year 2106 revenues at regulatory changes in the taxi industry as well as “aggressive” competition in the national taxi market.

The competition watchdog has given conditional authorisation to a joint venture arrangement between taxi networks and other industry participants, including Cabcharge, to launch and operate a new smartphone taxi booking app – ihail.

Taxi company Cabcharge says the ‘NSW Government taxi reforms signal recognition of the need to move to a level playing field’

Armed with a new GoCatch logo and a new tagline, the taxi bookings disruptor has disrupted its own identity in a bid to own its journey.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has still not finally decided whether it will authorise the smartphone taxi booking app, ihail, for use after previously indicating it intended to deny authorisation.

Large icy chunks are falling on the taxi industry’s ihail app courtesy of the ACCC, which considers the ihail app would have a ‘significant impact on competition’.

Uber has teamed up with Enabled Employment to offer disabled drivers with an unconditional driving licence the opportunity to become an UberX driver partner.

The unregulated threat from Uber X ride sharing services is seeing taxi drivers and the industry decry ‘unfair regulation’ that Uber X drivers don’t abide by.

Consumer advocacy group CHOICE is up in arms about what it says is a “fear mongering” campaign by the NSW Taxi Council claiming that ride-sharing services, like Uber, are “no safer than hitch-hiking”.

ingogo has released a new version of its taxi booking and payment services app for iOS and Android.

Ridesharing taxi disruptor Uber is slowly conquering the consumer market in Australia and New Zealand and it now has Cabcharge squarely in its sights, announcing Uber for Business.