{"id":6162,"date":"2022-05-31T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T17:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2023-03-21T13:58:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T17:58:32","slug":"uber-joins-forces-with-largest-italian-taxi-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/2022\/05\/31\/uber-joins-forces-with-largest-italian-taxi-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber Joins Forces with Largest Italian Taxi Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/italy-taxi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6163\" width=\"373\" height=\"248\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Similar to the partnership Uber created with NYC taxis, Uber has now also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleeteurope.com\/en\/maas\/europe\/article\/uber-partners-largest-taxi-service-italy?t%5B0%5D=Uber&amp;curl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signed a partnership<\/a> with IT Taxi, the largest taxi dispatch service in Italy. Through this alliance, IT Taxi\u2019s 12,000 taxi drivers will now be able to accept trips through the Uber app. Uber is hopeful that this new deal will help to expand their overall presence in Italy, especially as the new service covers 90 cities across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement by Uber\u2019s CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, he stated that \u201cThis\nis a truly historic deal in one of our most strategically important markets\nglobally. We strongly believe taxis and Uber are better together, and we\u2019re\ncommitted to making this a partnership of trust and cooperation long into the\nfuture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uber has struggled recently to maintain drivers which has led to\nlonger wait times and higher fares. Uber\u2019s partnerships with taxi companies are\none way in which Uber hopes to start digging out of the \u201cCovid induced hole\u201d.\nSo far, Uber has partnered with taxi companies in NYC, Hong Kong, Madrid and\nSan Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is quite ironic that Uber is now using the taxi fleets to\nsave their ridesharing company when for years the two were bitter rivals. Uber has\nfaced plenty of opposition from taxi drivers around the world with Italian taxi\ncompanies protesting in spite of Uber in 2017 and even causing an Italian court\nto block the company for a period of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Italian taxi rates through Uber are not yet disclosed\na spokesperson did state that Uber would be charging the taxi companies a fixed\ncommission rate for access to their platform. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to the partnership Uber created with NYC taxis, Uber has now also signed a partnership with IT Taxi, the largest taxi dispatch service in Italy. Through this alliance, IT Taxi\u2019s 12,000 taxi drivers will now be able to accept trips through the Uber app. Uber is hopeful that this new deal will help to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116,3],"tags":[1811,1808,1807,1810,1812,1815,1813,1814,1809],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6399,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions\/6399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxifarefinder.com\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}