Via (company)

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Via Transportation, Inc., or Via for short , is a US - Israeli company headquartered in New York City . Via operates ridepooling offers worldwide , as does its subsidiary ViaVan . Via is active in several cities, including New York, Chicago , Washington, DC , London , Amsterdam , Berlin and Milton Keynes . Via also licenses its technology to cities, transport companies and private organizations that can operate their own on-demand transports .

According to its own statements, Via is active in more than 20 countries worldwide, including the United States , Great Britain , Canada , Israel , Australia , New Zealand , Singapore , Japan , Brazil , Indonesia and Germany .

history

Via was founded in 2012 by Israeli entrepreneurs Daniel Ramot and Oren Shoval. For their business model, they were inspired by the Scherut called taxis inspired. Via started the first offer in 2014 in New York, as the city offers a better environment, according to the founders.

Product overview

Via primarily develops and operates passenger transport services and the associated IT systems, which mainly focus on shared journeys ( ridepooling ). The systems are also known as microtransit (small-scale public transport). Passengers who want to go in the same direction are booked into a shared vehicle by an algorithm . Passengers must go to a point specified in the app to board. The journeys begin and end at intersections or other, sometimes virtual, stops . In some cities, Via's ride pooling system is also used as a feeder to public transport . Door-to-door trips are also offered in individual cities.

Via operates as a single service provider in six cities around the world, so it operates the entire vehicle fleet there on its own. This includes the city of Arlington, Texas , where Via is the only public transport provider. In the other cities in which Via operates, it has a partnership with a local transport company or authority, university , taxi company or other private organization. Via licenses its technology as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS).

Via's technology is also used outside of public transport, for example in school bus traffic in New York or in visiting traffic at the BASF plant in Ludwigshafen .

ViaVan in Europe

ViaVan was founded in 2017 as a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz Vans and Via to offer ride pooling services in Europe, among other things. The company started operations in March 2018 with a transport offer in Amsterdam . In Germany, in September 2018 in cooperation with the Berlin transport the offer BerlKönig started. ViaVan's technology is also used for ridepooling services in other German cities, such as in a service offered by Stadtverkehr Lübeck .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ainsley Harris: Can ride-pooling service Via catch up to Uber and Lyft by being the friendly alternative? In: Fast Company. February 28, 2019, accessed May 27, 2020 (American English).
  2. ^ Solutions. In: Via. Retrieved May 27, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ Israeli-Founded Ride-Sharing Startup Via To Open Innovation Center In Jerusalem | Health News. December 26, 2019, accessed May 27, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ ISRAEL21c Staff: Via to develop Singapore's on-demand public bus service. April 4, 2018, Retrieved May 27, 2020 (American English).
  5. ↑ Vinod Shah: Bekasi and Via Launch TRON to Transform Riding Angkot in Indonesia. In: Urban Transport News. April 10, 2019, accessed May 27, 2020 (American English).
  6. ^ A b Anthony Noto: Via cofounder and CEO Daniel Ramot talks ride sharing and the on-demand economy. In: New York Business Journal. July 12, 2016, Retrieved May 27, 2020 (American English).
  7. ↑ a b Tali Tsipori: Car-Pooling Algorithm Startup Turns Heads, Opens Wallets. In: Government Technology. May 9, 2016, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b c Michaela Kwoka-Coleman: Mobility-on-Demand: The Future of Transportation. In: Metro Magazine. December 26, 2017, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Julie Walmsley: Los Angeles And Via Experiment With Low-Income Rideshare Service. In: Forbes. January 28, 2019, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  10. ↑ PYMNTS: Via Captures Business Travel Ridesharing Trend. In: PYMNTS.com. January 25, 2018, accessed May 27, 2020 (American English).
  11. ↑ Eillie Anzilotti: New York City's school buses will now be automatically routed and tracked using Via's algorithm. August 21, 2019, accessed May 27, 2020 (American English).
  12. ^ BASF : Shuttle site. Retrieved on May 27, 2020 (German).
  13. ^ Meir Orbach: Mercedes-Benz Vans and Ridesharing Company Via Launch Service in London. In: CTech. April 4, 2018, accessed May 27, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Sam Mehmet: SVHL launches shared ride service in Lübeck with ViaVan. In: Intelligent Transport. Retrieved May 27, 2020 (English).
  15. ↑ Pia Levermann: Taxi drivers protest: Apps cost customers. In: Lübecker Nachrichten . February 9, 2019, accessed May 27, 2020 .