AFTER the taxi fare cuts that took effect last week, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has initiated a review of the fare rates for app-based vehicle services like Uber and Grab. The LTFRB has…
GRAB, a regional ridesharing platform, will start serving passengers at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) next week. David de Castro, a spokesperson for the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), said that airport officials and Grab would…
THE LONGTIME ban on online ridesharing platforms at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport is soon ending. Apparently, Singapore’s Grab has come to an agreement with airport authorities that will allow people to book a driver from Naia.…
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has ordered the company that introduced GrabTaxi in the country to stop offering motorcycles for the riding public or it would lose its accreditation as an app-enabled transport service.…
WASHINGTON, United States—General Motors said Thursday it was launching a US car-sharing service under a new “personal mobility” brand dubbed Maven. GM said Maven, which will compete with services such as Zipcar, was operating in Ann Arbor,…
A TRANSPORT group has asked a Quezon City court to extend the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by another court on app-enabled transport services, as it maintained that the TRO should apply to existing operations of Uber…
INDONESIA—The transportation ministry has banned the operation of the country’s rapidly proliferating ride-hailing applications as it claims they do not fulfill the requirements for being public transportation, an official said. The general director of land transportation, Djoko…
A TRANSPORT group’s lawyer insisted Tuesday that the operations of Uber and GrabCar should be stopped in view of the suspension order issued by a Quezon City judge against the regulatory framework of the app-enabled ride-sharing service.…
THE TEMPORARY restraining order on new accreditations for vehicles under popular sharing apps Uber and GrabTaxi weakly invokes legal form over substance. An unelected judge with a caveman’s perspective should not singlehandedly hijack our democracy’s most important…
The Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 217 remained firm on its ruling stopping for 20 days the acceptance, processing and approving of permit applications for Uber and GrabCar operations amid confusion on the scope of the…
