Blablacar, the well-known car sharing long distance travel social network has decided drastically reinvent yourself and optimize its service, thereby facilitating transportation for people who do not live in a big city. The new Blablacar with which it will improve the value offered to its users, allowing passengers select the exact point of departureas well as a specific arrival point, without having to specify it personally with the driver.
The new Blablacar will offer thousands of meeting points
Blablacar drivers published in the app a planned trip between two cities, and passengers who were interested in sharing it joinedarranging a place for the collection and another for the destinationwhich as a rule are central locations or that have public transport such as train, metro or bus stations.
With this, the driver manages to obtain an agreed amount from each passenger, who also pays Blablacar a commission for the use of the application that connects drivers and users that varies between 10% and 20%. Let us remember that the drivers who use this app are private users interested in sharing your travel expenses, unlike or that have professional drivers
Now, the new Blablacar will allow the same passengers select both the point of departure and arrival even up in a home or small towns with which it will expand its passenger base, a model that reminds us more of a professional transport service than an initiative of .
The objective of this change in approach is to take advantage of the great community that it has created, providing each city and each neighborhood with the same connectivity that large urban centers have enjoyed until now, thereby You can multiply the offer up to ten times for those travelers who are in small and medium-sized towns or even in neighborhoods far from the center of large cities.
Soon Blablacar Lines will offer short-distance services on daily routes
But that’s not all, the new Blablacar already has in testing phase at your service “BlaBlaLines” with which it seeks to connect peripheral areas with the centers of large cities for daily journeys, such as commuting to work.
The new Blablacar algorithm will be able to match passenger requests with driver trips automaticallyso the system will send a message to the drivers that make a specific route so that they have the option to pick up the users without hardly deviating from the route that takes them to the capital.
An example given by the company is La Carolina (Jaén) in which a user searches for a trip to Madrid, and the system will search for drivers who make the Jaén-Madrid or Granada-Madrid route. According to its figures, Blablacar will increase the number of trips available each month from the town of Carolina from 200 to 2,312.
With these two new functionalities, the new Blablacar will no longer be simply a passive platform connecting drivers and passengers, to an active one that will offer trips on its own initiative. For now, the platform that has managed to reach 60 million users globally, in which 3.5 million are in Spainalso debuts the design of its logo e .
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