– Full-scale introduction of 'GPS-based app meter' with high location and distance accuracy... Expand all taxis in Seoul within 22 years
– ‘Mechanical meter’ that calculated the number of wheel revolutions → ‘App meter’ with IT technology and map location applied… Taxi industry change wave
– Prospects for epochal resolution of passenger complaints such as meter malfunction, and reduced difficulties such as handwriting input other than the clock
– With the temporary permission of the regulatory sandbox in 19, 1 units are currently in pilot operation… Actively promote the introduction of advanced IT-based taxi services
□ The Seoul Metropolitan Government will introduce the 'GPS-based taxi app meter', which improves the location and distance accuracy of the meter by introducing IT technology. Accordingly, it is expected that the inconvenience of citizens who suffered inconveniences such as unreasonable charges due to malfunction of the meter will be resolved, and the difficulties of the industry, which had to manually operate the meters one by one, are expected to be improved.
□ The city will start installing the app meter within June, and promote completion of the introduction by the end of this year for all taxis operated in Seoul. Until now, taxi meters based on mechanical operation (wheel rotation) have been the only ones since Korea's first taxi meter business started in 6. A wave of change is expected.
○ Application-type taxi meter (app meter) is a taxi meter that calculates the time, distance and speed based on the location information of the car that is grasped in real time through GPS.
○ Since 19, the GPS-based app meter has been pilot-operated in medium-sized taxis through temporary permission from the new technology regulatory sandbox of the Ministry of Science and ICT. The basis for promotion has been laid.
□ When the taxi app meter is introduced, it is expected that various expected effects will appear as the inconvenience of the taxi industry and citizens will be greatly improved.
□ First, it is expected that it will be able to resolve complaints about inconvenience caused by the malfunction of the meter. In particular, as a result of monitoring the app meter for medium-sized taxis, the fare error rate was 0.87% and the distance error rate was 1.05%, indicating that the accuracy was very high compared to the mechanical meter.
○ So far, passengers have been worried about unreasonable fares when the meter malfunctions, but when the app meter is applied, the location, etc. is automatically applied, which is expected to solve the inconvenience.
○ The mechanical meter showed less than 2% error rate in fare and less than 4% error in distance, indicating that the error rate accuracy of the app meter is very high.
□ Second, the convenience of taxi drivers will increase with the introduction of IT technology. In the case of mechanical meters, when operating a premium outside the clock, you have to manually input each one, but in the case of an app meter, the premium is automatically applied based on a map, which is expected to improve convenience and eradicate unfair charges for citizens.
○ In the case of a mechanical meter, a taxi driver must press a button one by one to apply an off-clock surcharge. In this case, you may forget to apply the premium while driving (press the button) or press the button incorrectly, which may lead to an unfair fare problem. If it is automatically applied to the app meter, it can not only solve inconveniences but also increase safety while driving, thereby increasing convenience in the industry.
□ Third, it is expected that specialized services will be expanded by using the automatic app payment function. As customized services such as premium taxis and infant car seats can be linked through the app meter, the taxi service as a mobility is expected to be advanced.
□ The city is currently operating the app meter by applying the app meter to 8,024 taxis, including 2,385 medium-sized taxis and 10,409 luxury and large-size shared taxis. As the city and the taxi industry agree that the introduction of app meters is necessary for industrial advancement, we plan to actively support the installation of GPS-based app meters in all taxis by the end of this year.
○ The taxi industry has requested policy support from Seoul to ensure the operation and use of the app meter is well established, and T-money's app meter has been selected as a medium-sized taxi application device and is actively being introduced.
○Most mid-size taxis have T-money app meters, and high-end and large-sized taxis operate app meters for each platform service, such as Kakao Black, Tada Next, Tada Plus, and Uber.
□ The taxi industry will enter into a mutual agreement with T-money, which is in charge of the settlement of taxi operation income, and share the cost necessary for the introduction of the app meter, and the Seoul Metropolitan Government will promote support for close cooperation between the two.
○ The T-money app meter has a program installed on the card payment machine, so it can be applied quickly to most medium-sized taxis. The installation cost is 1 won per unit, and the operating cost is 35,200 won per month.
□ Baekho, head of the Seoul Metropolitan City Transportation Office, said, “The introduction of the GPS-based app meter is expected to dramatically improve passengers’ inconveniences, such as unreasonable fares due to meter malfunction. We will actively promote the distribution and establishment of advanced IT-based taxi services,” he said.
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