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Teke Taxi – a corporate focused taxi solution

Incubate Africa

June 24, 2016
3 min read

Teke Taxi – a corporate focused taxi solution

Teke Taxi is a product of teke limited. It’s a tech solution majoring with cooperate taxi companies to link clients and cab companies offering transport. They began way back in 2013 where they were offering POS systems to the clients which was becoming a major challenge with the rapid change of advent technology like uber. The starter idea was to do taxi but later they changed after viewing the market and new strategies of approaching the consumers.

What problems do want to solve ?

Manual dispatch system – we wanted to avoid direct link of the client and the driver. Due to a lot of risks on both parties involved.
We wanted to link clients to the nearest taxi available. Since the system is in real time, the company dispatches the nearest taxi in your client region hence reducing the long wait of taxi.
We also avoid forgery of the vouchers. Since everything happens in real time there is a log of what has happened,

[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”]a client books one way and in between the journey he returns because of issues, the payment system is not static so it will calculate the mileage and price it accordingly to the distance traveled.[/quotes]

Teke Taxi explains.

What technologies and platforms did you use?

[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”]When we started it was pos system, which was a major challenge on the clientele side, so with major changes in the rise we decided to go mobile and web based way.[/quotes]

Would you explain to the consumers how your system works ?

So there is the Teke Taxi system, which has the admin side and the client side, the admin side configures the drivers, the taxis and management of client requests in real time, the client is mobile based, so they push their request to the system, of which the system checks the info log of the client captures the location coordinates, pushes them to the driver’s side ( the one available near your location ) . The specific cab corporate system dispatches the driver so no direct link of the client and the driver.

What challenges did you face when beginning

Mapping coordinates was a the biggest issue then,

[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”]Though we were digitally available but we manually found the client coordinates after the request has been done ….[/quotes]

Teke Taxi explains.

How many clients do have in the meantime?

[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”]So far the major are taxi corp-orates an estimated number of 16 (identities not given).[/quotes]

What make Teke Taxi different from other taxi apps?

We don’t approach taxi drivers, for we only deal with corporate taxi organizations.
We are a tech company offering solutions to taxi corp-orates not a transport company.

In a span of five to ten years where do you see yourself?