THE NINOY Aquino International Airport (Naia) has only 1,500 accredited taxis for around 10,000 tourists who arrive in the country daily and need a ride to get to their next destination. This was among the findings of…
UBER has upped the ante in the on-demand ride-sharing business as it announced the launching of a carpool service in Metro Manila to combat worsening traffic. Uber said the service, dubbed uberHOP, will be initially available for…
Five years since starting a ride-hailing app, Uber is set to offer a full-scale meal delivery service to the public in certain US cities by end-March, according to a report. Based on a Yahoo Finance report quoting…
PARK CITY, Utah—Uber plans to resume helicopter flights at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday in spite of a cease-and-desist order from a Utah sheriff who says he could arrest pilots who land near Park City. The…
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…
THE LAND Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Monday summoned another taxi driver after a passenger accused him of swearing at her and her family when she refused to give him an additional P50 on top…
DALY CITY, California–A 23-year-old Filipino from Daly City was apparently the wrong-way driver in a Christmas morning collision that killed an Uber passenger and seriously injured the ride-sharing service driver. Joebel Pagarigan was driving at 2:39 a.m.…
NEW YORK, United States—U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s stepdaughter was briefly detained at a police station after an argument with an Uber taxi driver over an unpaid fare, police said Monday. READ: Obama taps 1st black woman…
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…
