
A Bloomberg columnist recalculated Uber and Lyft's effect on car rental in Certify’s SpendSmart report on ground transportation. When measuring overall dollars spent — not number of expensed trips — the data tells a different story.
A Bloomberg columnist recalculated Uber and Lyft's effect on car rental in Certify’s SpendSmart report on ground transportation. When measuring overall dollars spent — not number of expensed trips — the data tells a different story.
Certify's annual review of business expense trends shows that car rental represented 25% of overall transaction volume in ground transportation in 2017. National Car Rental was the most expensed and top-rated brand in 2017, according to Certify data.
In the second quarter 2017, ride-hailing service Uber gained 2% to claim 55% of ground transportation overall, according to the Certify SpendSmart Report. Taxi dropped to 8% while car rental saw a two-point decline in business travel transactions.
According to the Certify SpendSmart Report for Q1 2017, ride hailing now accounts for 59% of all ground transportation transactions. Car rental accounts for 31% of transactions while the taxi industry only takes 10%.
According to the Certify SpendSmart Report for Q3 2016, ride hailing (Uber, Lyft) now accounts for 52% of total ground transportation transactions — taxi, car rental, and ride hailing — while car rental accounts for 36%. Ride hailing is up from 46% in Q2.
Ride-hailing services (Uber, Lyft) now account for 46% of all ground transportation transactions for business travel, according to the latest Certify SpendSmart Report for first quarter 2016.
For the first time, Uber finished ahead of car rental for total national ground transportation for business travelers in fourth quarter 2015, according to Certify’s SpendSmart Report.
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