”The plan is to be present in each developing town. (…) It is too early to talk about concrete plans at the moment, but the cities of Cluj, Iasi and Timisoara certainly are appealing to us,” said Schroeder.
Uber, appraised at $40 billion worldwide, offers car owners the possibility to provide transport services through a smartphone application that puts them in contact with clients and also ensures an order taxing and management platform.
The platform has been present on the Romanian market for approximately one year, during which time 70,000 users downloaded the application and the average time that takes a car to get to a user dropped from 12 minutes to 4.5 minutes, according to Schroeder.
Schroeder said this year’s objective is to keep increasing the number of people giving up their cars in favour of ridesharing and to keep reducing the average wait time for a car down to nearly three minutes.