Analyst Wang Jing from Analysys think-tank released an analysis report indicating that as of May 7, 2013, the monitoring data of 11 major application stores in the Android platform in China showed that in the field of taxi application subdivision, the total download data showed that More than one million downloads.

At present, shake the car, easy to taxi, a taxi secret, fast taxi client downloads have exceeded 100,000. The total number of downloads for taxi clients reached 430,000, which was higher than the 240,000 downloads. And users are mainly in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Although these taxi apps are currently being favored and are favored by Internet giants, such as Baba B financing for Tencent’s 15 million US dollars, the fast A round of financing has also won Alibaba’s millions of RMB...but The taxi fare increase challenged the profit distribution model of the existing taxi industry. The industry generally believes that the industry is more controversial and faces higher policy risks. The traffic supervision departments of some cities pointed out that the taxi fare increase strategy has aggravated the distribution contradiction of the original public transport resources, disrupted the fair playing environment for taxis and the use of car reservations, and may also strengthen the “black car” market. .

In response, the Beijing Traffic Committee stated that the act of fare increase meant that it was negotiated in a disguised manner and violated the regulations of the "Beijing Taxicab Management Regulations." Therefore, government departments must issue regulations and order taxi companies to apply the function of clearing up fares. To this end, the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission issued the “Trial Measures for the Administration of Taxi Electric Call Service in Beijing” that will begin on June 1. Beijing will regulate the taxi call service, and it is likely to force a unified online taxi application. .

At present, Beijing is not the first city to stop taxi fare increase by APP. Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places have already called the taxi fare increase function. Recently, the Internet suddenly burst into a message: “Shenzhen Bureau of Passenger Management has requested the drivers to uninstall the mobile phone calling software, and may not continue to use it. If it is installed and used, it will be handled in bad faith.”

Once cities begin to clean up their fare increases, there will be many orders for fare increase and taxi applications will be greatly overshadowed. However, the current “appetite for enclosure” of taxi apps is to expand the scale before policy tightening.