Greetings.
I want to introduce you to our "garage" service, designed for the selection of a taxi. At the moment it works only in Moscow.
A brief description of the functional. You mark the point of departure and destination, select additional services and receive a taxi dispatcher who is ready to help you, and the cost of "teleportation".
The essence of the problem
Currently, you can order a taxi in two ways:
- We call to the company, we order a taxi, we go.
Difficulties: non-compliance with your requirements for convenience and cost, possible ignorance of the road to a destination by a taxi driver
- We select several companies, compare their tariffs and services, order, go
Difficulties: it takes a long time to choose a company, a possible ignorance of the road to a destination by a taxi driver
Solution to the problem
We have created a
TaxiMap service that allows you to choose a company that best meets your requirements.
Main functionality
- Taxi in the city .
Mark the departure point and one or more destinations on the map. It is possible to put labels by simply entering the address in the appropriate field. After that, we mark the services you need (air conditioning, child seat, etc.), press the “Calculate route” button and get the issuance of companies and the cost of the trip.
You can also print the route and give it to the taxi driver to make it easier for him to navigate around the city.
- Taxi to the airport .
It's still easier here. We choose the airport, the area of ​​the city, the type of trip and additional services. Click "Send" and get the company and the cost of the trip.
Catalog of companies
There is little functionality here yet. It is present more in the form of a draft for the planned innovations.
With it, you can view the profiles of companies providing their services through our service.
Opportunities for taxi dispatch companies
Companies can
register and fill out their profile, after which they will be able to get customers through our service.
Currently, the profiles of all companies and the cost of their services are filled by us.
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On the development side
Still, an IT-directed resource, so I will talk about the technical side of the project.
During development, we used PHP + MySQL + Zend Framework. Design we took open source.
To implement the map, we used Google Maps. In the future, we do not exclude switching to Yandex Maps, but at the moment the implementation of routes in them is damp.
In the comments we would like to see the advantages and disadvantages of our service and the offer of new functionality.
Thanks for attention.
UPD: Thanks to the
unconnected revealed a serious problem with pricing. The reason is identified and eliminated, but the determination of the cost of a trip around the city works in a test mode.