Get starts to work in the National Bank of Israel and will operate a control room to ensure Zaminotz Taxis/Sivan Faraj
Half a year after the Airports Authority won the tender to operate taxi services in Israel, the Gett application begins to operate at the airport, with a series of technological innovations, and the continued uncertainty on the part of the Ministry of Transportation.
Beyond the possibility of ordering a taxi in the application to and from the airport, Gett has placed in Terminal 3, the only which is now operating, computerized kiosks for ordering a taxi, mainly for tourists, but also for Israelis who do not use a smartphone. Get
's entrance to the Sheda is intended to improve the availability of taxis in Israel, especially on weekends, when buses and trains to the Sheda are not operated for political reasons.
Get, in cooperation with the Airports Authority and the police, is supposed to remove taxi drivers who do not operate through regulated stations, and who tend to extort prices, mainly from tourists, from Nabvi.
Miri Regev.
As long as the Ministry of Transportation does not raise taxi fares, drivers will avoid coming to the field/Reuven Castro
However, the new tender does not solve the main problem that has plagued taxi services to the field in recent years: the 30% reduction in the prices of trips outside the city, which severely damaged the income of the drivers, causing many of them to give up work in the field or to try to negotiate the price with those who order them a ride to him, and if he refuses to unilaterally cancel their arrival.
As revealed in Vala Car, the ministries of transportation and finance are close to presenting a new outline that will increase the prices of travel outside the city, but did not complete its approval before the launch of the Get service in Netav, which will now make it more difficult to recruit drivers to work in the field. Although the problem is well known to the Airports Authority, which is It has been about a year without a permanent CEO since the ouster of Hagai Topolansky, who is appreciated by Transport Minister Miri Regev, since he was appointed by Merav Michaeli, and did not rush to promote appointments of Likud associates.
Rasht also refuses to cancel the fee it collects from taxi drivers, amounting to NIS 5, for picking up passengers from Tel Aviv.
Get, for its part, will also allow drivers who do not work with it regularly, to receive trips from the field through it, for a fee per trip.
Get, which will now run the service until the official opening on March 1, has reportedly invested millions of dollars in the process.
It will supervise the service in the field through a control room established by the Airports Authority, which also built a new rest area for taxi drivers, including a cafe.
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Kiosk for booking a taxi in Netav, for tourists and those who do not own a smartphone/get
How will it work?
Those who do not use the Get application, upon landing will be able to register for the shuttle service by scanning a QR code, download the application and receive a code that they will give to the taxi driver, and on it the details of the driver that the application matched.
Passengers who choose not to download the application, will access the computerized kiosks scattered around the port area, and order a taxi using a similar procedure.
Service attendants will assist passengers with tablet screens.
What is expected next?
Get is examining the launch of cooperative travel services to the field, so that a taxi will pick up several passengers on the way, and they will receive a discount from the meter prices.
This option was introduced to the new meters three years ago, but so far it has been used very little.
"Operating the technological service for managing and operating the taxi system in Tel Aviv is a task of utmost importance for Get," said Mark Ron, the company's CEO.
"Our team is working around the clock planning and creating a new service experience for passengers at the National Airport. The service that started operating in a running format is expected to stabilize while moving and will change the service experience of passengers arriving and departing from Israel."
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