Dida Chuxing has completed a product upgrade on its app, merging its carpool service and aggregated ride-hailing into a single page, allowing users to hail both carpool and ride-hailing vehicles with one tap after entering their origin and destination, or to call each service separately.
Alongside the merged page, the carpool product line has added several new offerings, including Comfort Carpool, Exclusive Six-Seat Vehicle, and Exclusive Premium Vehicle.
With the integration of the carpool and aggregated ride-hailing pages, passengers no longer need to switch back and forth between the two services or hail them separately; after entering their origin and destination, they can simply tap once on the same page.
The new ordering page also introduces an intelligent recommendation feature. The platform takes into account factors such as the passenger's departure time, distance, historical travel preferences, cost, and surrounding capacity supply to intelligently recommend the most suitable product combination, which is displayed in a "Recommended" module at the top of the page.
Building on its existing Exclusive and Discounted Exclusive options, DIDA INC (ASX: 02559) has further expanded its carpool exclusive product line, adding the Exclusive Six-Seat Vehicle, Exclusive Premium Vehicle, and Express Exclusive products, aiming to better meet users' demand for quality and speedy travel.
In terms of use cases, the Exclusive Six-Seat Vehicle can carry up to six passengers. Scenarios such as family trips with children, outings with friends and relatives, and small-group business travel no longer require splitting orders, allowing direct door-to-door travel with lower per-capita costs.
For six-seat vehicle owners who share empty seats along their route, this also offers slightly higher earnings than regular carpool orders. In addition, addressing the demand of some passengers who "don't want to share with too many people," the newly added Comfort Carpool product stipulates that after a carpool driver accepts an order, they can only take on one more order. Passengers pay a slightly higher price than ordinary carpooling in exchange for more spacious room and shorter travel time.
As of now, DIDA INC's (ASX: 02559) aggregated ride-hailing business has covered nearly 300 cities and continues to expand. Meanwhile, DIDA INC (ASX: 02559) has launched carpool services in 366 cities nationwide, with a cumulative total of 21.4 million certified private car owners.
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