Car-pooling business in the field of intelligent travel

Absrtact: The penetration and transformation of the Internet to the traditional industry has realized two things, one is to improve transaction efficiency and the other is to reduce transaction cost. Specific to intelligent travel in the field of carpool business, it improves the use of roads, easing traffic congestion, but also let

The penetration and transformation of the Internet to the traditional industry has achieved two things, one is to improve transaction efficiency and the other is to reduce transaction costs. Specific to intelligent travel in the field of carpool business, it has improved the use of roads, easing traffic congestion, but also allows people to reasonably share the cost of oil, to lower prices to solve the demand for traffic travel.

In common sense, we refer to the "carpool" is a private car (car). It is characterized by "one-to-one" sharing of carrying capacity, the route is not fixed, to "shun" mainly. The market has become increasingly white-hot, 36 of Krypton reported such startups have been 10 million dollars a round of the tick carpool, the completion of the Sequoia million-dollar B-round financing of the daily car, as well as love carpool, a little carpool, AA carpool and so on. "Pick Me" (Ios/andriod) founder and CEO Hui was also aimed at the "car" business, when perceived market become irrational, the team switch ideas in last December opened a bus bus business, the main "cart".

To put it simply, "Pick Me Up" provides two types of services in partnership with the bus rental company: one for commuting from the community to the shopping district, and the other for travel between two hot areas (such as the roundtrip transfer between the Guomao area and the high-speed rail). Compared with traditional carpool products, it has several obvious features: first of all, it is the cooperation of the bus operators have operational qualifications, security will be more than private cars more protection; second, the number of vehicles is more, usually 15-50 people, so it will be cheaper to split the cost than the private car, the final route and time is relatively fixed, can be punctual, But it also means you can't be as flexible as a private car in time and place.

Currently on my platform there are both C-side (personal) and B-end (enterprise) two types of users. Take B-end as an example, Hui shared a data: of the one or two-line city trip, 8% of the people took the shuttle, and 24% of the companies provided the shuttle service. This means that the company's shuttle service and staff travel needs do not match effectively, this mismatch caused a large number of public resources waste. Then I hope to be able to the specific areas of the company's shuttle bus needs and shuttle bus to a cloud, so that more people can take the bus, but also improve the delivery efficiency.

In addition to providing some regular hot lines outside (Yan Jiao-International trade), C-end users can also customize their own routes (such as 7:00, from the Yan-rural Zhuge shop-to Da Wang Road), and then sent to the platform to put forward demand. If you get a lot of people's response, this line can be successfully started to run, quite a bit of the meaning of the public.

On the profit model, I plan to get revenue from advertising in the car and providing value-added services (such as breakfast, beverages, etc.). Hui also mentions social networking in buses, such as encouraging people to simply introduce themselves to each other in the car and help everyone know each other. However, the individual will feel that after all, just to take a car, in front of so many people to introduce themselves how many people are not comfortable, or micro-group and offline free hooking more practical.

At the same time as I write, easy to just announced the line of the shuttle bus service "easy to the bus", also provides from the community to the shopping district of commuting services. It is noteworthy that in the near future and Haier industrial finance set up a joint venture company "Sea easy to travel", the target of 3 years to achieve 8 billion asset scale, it seems that the bus business is likely to become easy to improve the automotive service chain of the next important layout point.

My team members from the Shenzhou car rental, Lenovo Group, Tsinghua Tongfang and other enterprises, Hui has been a vice president of the Shenzhou car rental, last year, won the source of investment and the foundation of the millions of Dollar angel round financing.