The fleet will cover an estimated 4 billion road miles this year and is anticipated to generate over 7 billion road miles of data with its fully connected fleet in 2020.
The partnership between TSD, a rental fleet management software provider, and Zubie, a connected-car and telematics platform, will give fleet operators a connected car solution integrated with fleet management data.
Barton, former ACRA president and senior vice president of global franchise operations for Hertz, will serve as president of global mobility for Dublin, Ireland-based software firm.
Unlike Uber and Lyft, Jerry Crosby's app — Select — will not have surge pricing during busy hours. Instead, customers will be charged the standard cab fee of $2.50 per mile.
In partnership with Avis, the new service will feature a fleet of Mercedes Metris vans, as well as wheelchair accessible vehicles.
Laak Mobility Group (LMG), a holding company that includes Europcar Mexico, plans to open in Panama in July and Costa Rica by the end of the year. LMG has rolled out a self-service module in car rental locations to streamline the car rental process.
A local market franchisee chronicles the growing pains of the peer-to-peer rental concept through supplying the Turo platform with his rental cars and consulting for Turo hosts.
Furthermore, customers can replay the videos with the voice overs.
With the launch of the new Sixt app at the end of February 2019, the company has demonstrated the increasing importance of IT for the further development of its business model.
Zubie Rental Connect also addresses the challenge of optimizing “no-rev vehicles” though it’s idle inventory exception reporting, allowing managers to increase monetization.