Until a few years ago, it was considered a luxurious and expensive thing to hire a taxi, but with the introduction of Uber, hiring a taxi has become a relatively common task, that too while enjoying the comfort of home, with just a few clicks. It all sounds so easy now to book a cab but it was never so easy earlier.
However, not just Uber, but many other applications like Ola, Careem, Grab, Juno, Gett, etc have grabbed strong market share and have transformed the transportation industry a lot. Uber has revolutionized the traditional taxi-hiring process and has set new benchmarks for competitors to carry out the business of cabs.
If you have ever planned to start a new venture of the sort of Uber, and to develop a mobile app for the same, but did not believe your idea to be successful, check out the following ideas for a transport startup like Uber.
Handicapped people, who move with the help of wheelchair and cannot walk at all, need special facilities to travel in a vehicle. Therefore, an app can be developed for the handicapped people separately, wherein they can book a taxi for themselves with a few clicks on their smartphone and then travel easily from one place to another. The major concern here is to provide extra care in the cab setup making them fully safe for handicapped people to travel.
A unique app can be developed specifically for kids enabling the parents to be stress-free while their children travel to other places on a cab. Whether the children have to travel for their tuition classes or to sports centres or for other cocurricular activities, an uber-like app for kids will ensure complete safety and the cab will be booked by parents comfortably without having to look out for one outside.
There are a lot of women who work during the night and have to travel for the same as well. Specifically, for such women, and otherwise for general public as well, a dedicated cab-booking app for women would be a great idea which will surely be considered a welcome step for the female population.
Introduction of such an application would motivate female drivers to work safely as well who otherwise do not feel safe at all to work as a cab driver. Therefore, it would be a win-win situation for both the drivers and passengers and once the idea gets accepted widely in the society, the investor would surely generate a handsome revenue.
There are a lot of patients who need to visit hospitals and clinicians on regular basis. Such patients need extra care and comfort as compared to medically fit passengers. Therefore, considering their special needs, an app can be developed specifically for patients who can then book a cab whenever they need.
Such an app can be developed as a blend of three different applications – one for carrier, one for shipper and one for truckers, also including an admin panel. Startups in trucking and logistics industry can create such an application in order to manage the deliveries, trucks, drivers, along with paperwork and locations in an easy and fast way. Availability of features like real-time location, estimated time of delivery, payment records, delivery notifications, etc. would make the overall process more efficient.
It is extremely difficult for the senior citizens to travel by buses or by metro or other public transport utilities. Also, there are a lot of instances when they need to visit a hospital at a given time of appointment but are unable to travel by buses causing delay in their consultations. Considering dire need in society to provide extra help to our senior citizens, an app can be developed for them using which they can book a cab for themselves quickly avoiding all the hassle and delay.
An app can be designed and developed with easy-to-use interface which can provide information for the availability of multiple kinds of transportation such as a cab, bus, train, and also the available car-pooling options at the time of booking. Along with checking the availability, the users can also compare prices and the estimated time of travel using different means thus making it easier for them to decide which mode of travel to choose. Therefore, if there are any plans in your mind to invest in an uber-like application, you can definitely go ahead and invest on this idea as it will provide information about multiple modes of transport on a single platform thus simplifying the overall task of travelling.
Conclusion:
After going through some of the best ideas to invest in the segment of Uber-like applications, it would now be easier for you to decide which idea you consider more profitable and to start working on it. As soon as your mind settles down on one idea and you decide to go ahead with it, feel free to contact us and we would be glad to assist you with our best-in-class app development services.
