Beijing to unveil taxi app this month  

北京官方打车软件月底推出 民间软件或被"招安"

北京市交通委日前发布消息，6月底，本市将推出出租汽车手机下单软件，该软件将与“96106”电召平台结合，实现订单在5家调度中心之间按规则流转，提高乘客约车的调派成功率。据介绍，该软件或将“嘀嘀打车”“摇摇招车”等软件纳入，市民使用该软件是否收费尚未确定，但绝不允许有加价行为存在。

(ECNS) -- Beijing will unveil its own taxi hailing service via smartphone by the end of this month, the city transport commission said.

The commission said the app will be integrated with the phone call service 96106, which was launched last Saturday, and distribute orders among the city's five dispatch centers.

The commission will register existing taxi hailing apps for better supervision and regulation. Li Xiaosong, spokesman for the commission, said taxi hailing apps available now, including Didi Dache and Yaoyao Zhaoche, may be integrated into the unified platform for taxi booking services, under the condition that no premium be allowed.

Insiders at the commission also admitted that the easiest way is to integrate existing apps into the new system.

Cheng Wei, CEO of Didi Dache, a taxi e-hailing app, said in an earlier interview that mobile apps with advanced technology can raise the level of automotive control in sending taxis out better than a phone call service.

Cheng said taxi booking apps will provide better services after it reaches an agreement with official dispatch centers.