Uber plans to expand driver pool, increase efficiency
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Uber expects 100,000 drivers to support its mobile-application-based ride-sharing service next year, up from 30,000 partners now.
It also targets a three-minute response time from when a customer calls to the time of arrival of the car. Currently the average pick-up time or estimated time of arrival is 5.5 minutes.
Chan Park, general manager for Southeast Asia, said yesterday that the company had now served more than a million rides on its platform. There are some 10,000 customers per week and about 20 per cent of them are active.
Of the 30,000 car-driver members, 20 per cent earn Bt30,000 per month, with Bt134,000 the highest.
The areas of highest demand for Uber are Ratchaprasong, Sathorn and Sukhumvit.
