To be able to legally drive a car in Australia and NZ you need a driver licence, an official document that allows specific individuals to operate the car on public roads. So, if you want to apply to become a rideshare driver, make sure you have an acceptable driver licence in the country or state where you are going to drive. As the main and most important requirement that allows you drive for a rideshare Read more…
The success of Uber in Australia has led many other rideshare companies to open their services in this country, including an Estonian-based company Taxify who was launched at the end of 2017 and then in 2019 they rebrand itself as Bolt to represent much broader transportation platform, not just the taxi dispatch platform which is their first service. Bolt (Taxify) is currently only available in the two cities of Melbourne and Sydney, the cities where Read more…
Didi is a new player in rideshare business across Australia, coming in 2018 with Melbourne as their first city. The Chinese ridesharing company must compete with several other global on-demand online transportation companies, such as US-based Uber which has been operated since 2014 and India-based Ola which were present in the same year as Didi. To be able to compete in Australia, Didi promoted his application as low-fare rideshare. They have dropped rider fares several Read more…
Australia was the first country where Didi Chuxing opened their first expansion outside its home country with Melbourne as the first city in the country. Using the tag line Low-fare rideshare Didi is quite successful in the cities where they operate. Didi uses a different approach to attracting customers and driver-partner to use its rideshare platform. To attract customers, they charge a slightly lower fare with competitors. In addition, riders also had the opportunity to Read more…
Being one a city with the fifth largest population on the continent, making Adelaide a promising city for rideshare services, including the Indian-based rideshare company Ola Cabs. Ola opened its service in Adelaide in mid-2018, Adelaide becomes a most recent city where their rideshare service opened in Australia. Competition is not too fierce in the city since there is only one popular ridesharing service. Uber operates almost without significant competition in the city from 2014. Read more…
The Chinese ridesharing service Didi has been around since 2018 in Australia with Melbourne and Geelong as its first cities. The company which describes itself as low-fare rideshare seems to be quite successful in its first two cities. To be able to compete in Australia which previously had several global rideshare companies such as Uber and Ola Cabs, Didi tried to be different. One way is to reduce their rides prices under the compressor. Also, Read more…
Perth is the fourth largest city in Australia, home for more than 2 million Australians or 8% of the national population. In the city, Ola began to introduce its application to the Aussie before finally also being launched in several other major cities such as Sydney and Melbourne. In Western Australia, Ola is a newcomer to ridesharing business. Because Uber has been around for a long time in this city, since 2014. But that did Read more…
Rideshare is nothing new in Perth, this kind of service has been lived in the city since 2014 marked by the arrival of Uber. In addition to the capital city, the ride-hail giant has recently opened new cities in Western Australia, Bunbury and Busselton. Uber has been operating for more than 3 years without significant competition in Perth, before finally the Indian company Ola launches its ride-hail services in Western Australia. However, the dominance of Read more…
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As the third most populous city in Australia, making Brisbane a good choice for startup companies who want to expand their services in the country. Including Ola, who launched its ridesharing service in Brisbane in 2018 along with other major cities such as Sydney and Melbourne. Ola is not a single player in Queensland’s ridesharing field, previously there was Uber who dominated the ride-hailing market in the state since 2014. Also, Ola also had to Read more…