Urban Mobility
Price Transparency Ipoh-based taxi hailing app Wowora is looking to compete with ride-hailing giants Uber and Grab in Malaysia’s fringe markets, banking on fixed price rates to attract passengers who may be turned off by the ride-hailing companies’ surge pricing mechanism. According to its website, Wowora follows the taxi rate in each state it operates in and does not seem
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oBike expands its free-floating bike-sharing services to Kota Kinabalu, the second city in Malaysia. oBike in Kota Kinabalu oBike, a technology-based Singapore company that focuses on a one-way ‘free-floating’ first-and last-mile stationless bike-sharing service, was officially launched in Kota Kinabalu on 5 june. Kota Kinabalu is the second Malaysian city to enjoy this bicycle sharing service, after Klang Valley’s
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Malaysia Automotive Institute (MAI) and Swinburne University of Technology’s collaborative research partnership will include a joint Transport Innovation Centre (TIC). The centre will be housed in Swinburne Melbourne; with a node at Swinburne Sarawak Campus which will start its implementation on Sept 1, said MAI chief executive officer Dato Madani Sahari. “We have RM2 million committed, minimum, to kick- start
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