I go to work by
taxi everyday.
我每天乘出租车去上班。
You’d better take a
taxi to the railway station.
你最好坐出租车去火车站。
Fasten your seatbelts while the plane is
taxiing.
在飞机滑行时系好安全带。
Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Global Inc apologized for its app malfunction earlier this week and will launch a 10 yuan ($1.4) taxi discount coupon for each user, the company said on its social media account on Wednesday.
中国叫车公司滴滴全球（Didi Global Inc）周三在其社交媒体账户上表示，该公司本周早些时候为其应用程序故障道歉，并将为每位用户推出10元（1.4美元）的打车折扣券。
In March, Groupe ADP, which is spearheading the development of eVTOL infrastructure in the Paris region, announced Paris' plan to have the world's first air taxi network ready for next year's Summer Olympics, which will run from July 26 to Aug 11.
今年3月，率先在巴黎地区开发eVTOL基础设施的ADP集团宣布，巴黎计划为明年7月26日至8月11日举行的夏季奥运会建立世界上第一个空中出租车网络。
- A Chinese company, Guangzhou EHang Intelligent Technology, will showcase its autopilot "air taxi" in Israel, said Israel's Civil Aviation Authority on Sunday.
-以色列民航局周日表示，中国公司广州易航智能科技将在以色列展示其自动驾驶“空中出租车”。
Chinese tech giant Baidu announced on Monday that it has expanded the commercial operation area and times of its driverless taxi service in Central China's Wuhan.
中国科技巨头百度周一宣布，已扩大其在中国中部武汉的无人驾驶出租车服务的商业运营区域和时间。
Across China, there are around 160,000 battery swap vehicles－mainly used in taxi, logistic and rental sectors－and nearly 900 battery swap stations.
在中国，大约有16万辆电池交换车，主要用于出租车、物流和租赁行业，以及近900个电池交换站。
The company has been playing a key role in setting the global industrial criteria since it joined the UITP, and managed to promote its standards of pure electric taxi maintenance and repair, infrastructure, planning, procurement and operation to the rest of the world.
Ma was elected the chairman on duty of the Taxi and Ride-Hailing Committee of UITP in March.
Since Jan 1, the department has inspected the implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures by online ride-hailing platforms, taxi companies and drivers.
One of the world's largest app of its kind, DiDi now offers its "DiDi Express" and "DiDi Taxi" services in La Plata, capital city of Argentina's Buenos Aires province, and in Greater Buenos Aires.
The company said five weeks ago, more than 15,000 taxi drivers and over 15,000 other drivers chose to join the application, who would be able to start generating income independently and safely Tuesday.
Didi, however, could face competition from Yandex Taxi, which holds about 27 percent of the local ridehailing market.
Yandex Taxi was founded by Russian internet conglomerate Yandex NV.
In April, Baidu fully opened its self-driving taxi service Apollo Robotaxi in Changsha, Hunan province.
Li said China is taking the lead in the autonomous driving sector around the world, adding Baidu has also carried out passenger-carrying self-driving taxi road tests in Beijing and Cangzhou, North China's Hebei province.
In the future, tourists visiting Guangzhou will not only travel around landmarks such as the Canton Tower, Beijing Road and the Pearl River, but can also ride in an air taxi, the passenger-grade AAV, to enjoy the scenery of Guangzhou city from the air.
According to the agreement, Chinese tourists can use the Dazhong Go app to book taxi services at Tokyo Haneda International Airport and Narita International Airport as well as around the city.
This new service – it begins in January 2020 - will help tourists overcome language barriers and provide them with a safer travel experience, the two taxi services said.
Yang Guoping, chairman and president of Dazhong Transportation Group, said that the management experience and service excellence of the Japanese taxi company are worth learning from.
"Our group is also talking with transportation authorities and taxi service providers in France, the United Kingdom and South Korea about similar collaborative projects," he added.
Transport for London (TfL), the regulator of taxi and private hire services in the UK capital, said on Monday that it will not grant Uber a new private hire operator's licence due to safety reason.
"I can see Xiaomi smartphone users everywhere in India, whether I'm on a taxi or a plane," said Liu Yuxiang, Xiaomi's country manager of internet service for India, adding that Xiaomi has a large number of Mi fans in India, some of whom would travel all the way from south India to New Delhi to attend the brand's product launch events.
Just recently Volocopter presented the design for VoloCity, its new air taxi being created according to specifications put forward by EASA.
Later this year the Urban Air Mobility pioneer will present its VoloPort air taxi landing infrastructure at the ITS WC from Oct 22 to 25, 2019 in Singapore.
The company is developing the Nexus, a new energy-powered aircraft for on-demand aerial transport as a future air taxi.
The new direct route represents another step in Rome's strategic vision to embrace tourism from China, said Cafarotti, adding that the city's administration is striving to adjust the touristic offer accordingly, with a series of projects such as training courses for concierges and taxi drivers, the introduction of Chinese payment platform Alipay in museums and the creation of a city's profile for Wechat -- China's most popular social media platform.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Uber on Friday on behalf of thousands of Australian taxi and car-hire drivers, alleging that the global rideshare giant allowed its drivers to operate without proper accreditation.
One of the plaintiffs, taxi driver, operator and license owner, Nick Andrianakis said that his multi-generational vocation was destroyed by Uber's actions.
Didi Japan said in a statement that it is dedicated to partnering with leading taxi companies to improve taxi provision and services.
Since Didi Japan's launch in Osaka six months ago, the number of Didi taxi operators tripled on the platform, with the business achieving 60 percent monthly growth.
Chinese internet search giant Baidu Inc will launch a self-driving taxi service in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province, in the second half of 2019, said company chairman and CEO Robin Li on Tuesday.
Lyft's huge advantage over traditional taxi companies is that it does not buy or operate its fleet.
Operated by Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate company of China's Alibaba Group, Alipay users can hail a taxi, book a hotel, buy movie tickets, pay utility bills, make appointments with doctors, or purchase wealth management products directly from within the app.
Didi Chuxing redefines taxi services via M&A and product innovationsChina's ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Company is rolling out its services in Latin America, Australia and Japan, in a bid to become the world's leading mobile transportation player amid fierce competition from Uber.
Stephen Zhu, vice-president of Didi Chuxing and CEO of Didi Japan, said the new platform aims to help taxi companies to improve their efficiency and utilization, enhance user satisfaction and build more broad-based demand for taxi services.
Didi said it aims to support the Japanese taxi industry to capture these new opportunities in anticipation of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Currently, Didi offers a full range of app-based transportation options for 550 million users, including taxi, express, premier, bus, designated driving, bike sharing and car sharing, ferried around by more than 31 million drivers.
Some of the most well-known local brands include the city’s first taxi company Qiangsheng, bicycle makers Phoenix and Forever, stationery company Hero Pen and the Wing On Department Store.
In the near future, localxa0users will also be able to pay taxi fare via kakaopay.
From taxi rides to hotel bookings, from restaurant payments to luxury shopping and even for rides in the snow on a sled pulled by huskies, Chinese tourists are able to use either UnionPay or Alipay.
From the hotel, a five-minute taxi ride leads to the historic Liuhe Pagoda.
Within a 20 minutes taxi ride from the hotel, guests can enjoy shopping in one of Binjiang's upscale malls, the Paradise Walk.
"But in China, you just use your phone to do anything, such as pay for taxi and pay for food.
Apart from challenging traditional media outlets, its meteoric rise is stealing the thunder of Tencent's WeChat, through which users can make video conference calls, pay for taxi rides and order food on a daily basis.
Jean Liu, president of Didi Chuxing, said, "Didi believes AI-based innovation may contribute to new growth in the taxi industry and the public transportation sectors.
"She did not specify taxi partners.
Didi said in a statement that its new platform will help taxi operators track drivers and rides using heat maps, while passengers will be able to summon rides and rate drivers via an app, which will also offer Chinese-Japanese translation.
Japan is the world's third-largest taxi market.
With an advanced mobile internet infrastructure and a global reputation for high-quality taxi service, Japan holds great potential as a market for online taxi-hailing, said Stephen Zhu, vice-president of Didi Chuxing and CEO of Didi Japan.
Finland is another key European country where Alipay is widely accepted among merchants, including at the Santa Claus Village and Finnair, as well as with leading Finnish taxi companies.
Transport for London (TfL) refused to give the Silicon Valley taxi firm a five-year operating licence last September, citing failings in its approach to reporting serious criminal offences and to background checks on drivers.
The company also entered the ride-hailing sector recently to link dining with transportation, where users can directly book a taxi where they reserved a restaurant table for dinner.
Founded in 1997, the Geely Auto Group now owns the Swedish passenger car maker Volvo and London Taxi Company.
ISTANBUL- Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan has said ride hailing app Uber is finished in Turkey, following pressure from Istanbul taxi drivers who said it was providing an illegal service and called for it to be banned.
Earlier this year, Istanbul's taxi drivers took Uber to court accusing it of hindering their business and operating illegally.
Several reports said that Uber vehicles, drivers and customers were either mistreated, threatened or faced violence by yellow taxi drivers.
Wang Cheng, a taxi driver at Rongcheng county, said he used to manage a family business to make plastic products.
"Maybe in the future, I'll open a restaurant," Wang said, adding that the income from the taxi is much too low compared to his earnings as a business manager.
The company's latest move means that customers can directly call a taxi or express car when they search for a certain restaurant, and don't need to return to the home page.
Meituan, an online platform for ordering food, buying movie tickets and booking restaurants, obtained a license to provide car-hailing service include taxi and ride sharing in the city in June 2017.
Under the partnership, the two sides will build a ride-hailing platform to enhance efficiency for both taxi operators and drivers.
Taxi services in Japan are known for their high quality standards and expensive prices.
By integrating Didi's deep learning-based demand prediction and smart dispatch systems, combined with Soft-Bank's local resources and expertise, the two companies aim to optimize taxi ride-hailing services and increase passenger convenience, they said in a statement.
"We will engage with industry practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders, with the aim of building an open and inclusive platform that will be available to all of Japan's taxi operators," Didi said.
According to official data, the revenue of the traditional taxi industry in Japan reached more than 1.5 trillion Japanese yen ($13 billion) in the 2014 fiscal year.
During the past two decades, the number of taxi users in Japan dropped by 45 percent.
But taxi is not a popular choice for Japanese, who prefer to take subways," Zhao said.
Founded in 2012, Didi is now the world's leading online platform for taxi-hailing, with 2 million taxi drivers connected to its app.
In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1 billion rides on Didi, which has established partnerships with about 500 taxi operators in China.
The partnership will use DiDi technology to raise the efficiency of taxi operators and drivers in Japan, according to the company.
DiDi and SoftBank aim to set up a joint venture in Japan and start services this yearThe partners will engage with local industry practitioners, policymakers and other stakeholders to build a platform suitable for all Japanese taxi operators, according to DiDi.
"So when we launch our air purifying product, it will be social media-connected, mobile-based, with payments and customer feedback in the loop and all that, so that parents can check if the school has been regularly changing the air purifier filters or your taxi is pollution-free inside.
In Cairo, the capital of Egypt, BYD’s sedan accounts for 40 percent of the city’s taxi fleet and its sport utility vehicle S5 is scheduled for a local launch in March.
Wang added that the purchase will also deal a blow to its biggest rival Uber Technologies Inc, especially in Brazil, as Didi is doing quite well in localization and will change its strategy according to the maturity of different markets.99, also known as 99 Taxi, has a total of 14 million users and over 300,000 drivers in Brazil, which, with a population of more than 200 million people and a relatively underdeveloped public transportation network, is a potential emerging market, and offers great opportunities for ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Didi.
Shanghai taxi operator Qiang Sheng has inked strategic cooperation agreements with three partners including the new energy vehicle arm under the State Grid to enter the increasingly popular online ride-hailing sector as part of its efforts to enhance the overall service quality of the city's taxi industry.
The strategic agreement, announced on Tuesday, was inked by Shanghai Qiang Sheng Holding Co Ltd, the State Grid (Shanghai) Electric Vehicle Service Company, Hangzhou YouXing Technology Co under the Geely Group and Japanese taxi company Tokyo MK Corp.
"We will strive to form a multi-party cooperative development platform to help Qiang Sheng in its strategic transformation in the taxi sector," said Chen Fang, general manager of Shanghai Qiang Sheng Holding Co Ltd.
The State Grid has built a nationwide smart car networking platform; Geely's Cao Cao ride-hailing service developed by YouXing Technology is the first Chinese domestic new energy-focused mobility service; and Tokyo MK is well-known for its quality services in the Japanese taxi industry," said Cheng Lin, deputy general manager of Shanghai Qiang Sheng Holding Co Ltd. Internet technologies and sharing economy boom have made online car-hailing a hotspot among young consumers, attracting many business startups and heavy investments.
Uber Technologies Inc should be classified as a transport service and regulated like other taxi operators, the European Union's top court said in a landmark ruling on Wednesday that could impact other online businesses in Europe.
Uber, which allows passengers to summon a ride through an app on their smartphones, has transformed the taxi industry since its launch in 2011 and now operates in more than 600 cities globally.
The case follows a complaint from a professional taxi drivers' association in Barcelona that Uber's activities in Spain amounted to misleading practices and unfair competition from Uber's use of non-professional drivers－a service Uber calls UberPOP and which has since been suspended in Spain and other countries.
Uber has taken the fight to regulators and established taxi and cab companies, expanding from a Silicon Valley startup to a business with a valuation of $68 billion.
"IRU, the world road transport organization, which includes taxi associations, cheered the ruling as finally offering a level playing field for providers of the same service.
"In the area of mobility, the taxi and for-hire sector was one of the first to embrace innovation and new technologies," said Oleg Kamberski, head of passenger transport at the IRU.
Given that users hail a taxi more frequently than renting a car, customers may be more attracted to Didi services," she said.
It also allied with Japan's Soft-Bank to inject around $2 billion into its existing partner Grab, and cooperated with Brazil-based taxi on-demand service 99, Uber's major US competitor Lyft, global car-rental firm Avis Budget Group, and India's ride-hailing company Ola.
"Having hands in an array of transportation services, including taxi, premier cars, mini bus, car rental, hitch and investments in bike-sharing, Didi's latest push in self-driving cars highlights once again its ambitions of building a one-stop platform to meet people's various demands.
Airbus's A3 Silicon Valley think tank has been working on its proposed Vahana flying taxi, due for its first test flight this year.
[Photo/IC]Chinese firm teams up with Daiichi Koutsu to tap opportunities in TokyoChinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing and Japanese taxi provider Daiichi Koutsu Sangyo Co Ltd are planning to launch application-based ride-hailing services in Tokyo, to better serve the growing number of Chinese tourists visiting Japan.
Didi will expand the services to target more areas in Japan through collaboration with other local taxi providers.
According to official data, the revenue of Japanese traditional taxi industry reached more than 1.5 trillion Japanese yen ($13 billion) in the 2014 fiscal year.
During the past two decades, the number of taxi users in Japan dropped 45 percent.
The declining fortunes of the traditional taxi industry has proved to be a challenge for new entrants like US-based Uber Technologies Inc, as it struggles to develop its model in Japan.
The services introduced by Didi and Daiichi Koutsu will only allow customers to take rides via taxi cabs rather than private vehicles, as the local regulations prohibit unlicensed private vehicles from engaging in paid transportation.
Didi Chuxing covers about 400 million users in more than 400 Chinese cities, accounting for 80 percent of China's private car-hailing market and 99 percent of the taxi preorder market, as reported by Sina.
Even taxi drivers were reluctant to go there.
Hangzhou-based Geely acquired LEVC, formerly the London Taxi Co, in 2013 for 11 million pounds and has so far invested 325 million pounds in the business, including a 300 million pound facility in Coventry where the TX is assembled.
Didi is one of the world's largest mobile transportation platforms, with around 400 million users signed up to its taxi, minibus and bike-sharing services.
In 2015 Didi bought a minority stake in Indian car-hailing service Ola, and on Tuesday the company invested in Middle East online taxi service Careem.
[Photo by Angus Mcneice/China Daily]The London Taxi Co, owned by Chinese automaker Geely, announced it had rebranded as London EV Co on Tuesday at the unveiling of the final design of the TX electric taxi in the British capital.
Geely acquired the London Taxi Co in 2013 for 11 million pounds ($14.2 million) and has since invested 325 million pounds in the business, including a 300-million-pound factory in Coventry to build the TX.