A Ugandan student, Kenneth Bintu has developed an app called Public Taxi Uganda through which authorities, car owners and passengers can track movements of Taxis.
The Public Taxi Uganda app can be downloaded and used by anyone with an Android phone. “This innovation is a public transport revolution system that we have come up with to help Ugandans, to solve the problem of reckless accidents, safety, rape, and robbery conducted in Ugandan Taxis, this is therefore meant to improve the transport system”.
Said Kenneth Hey says that the public tax app is an instant communication platform that creates a friendly relationship between passengers and tax drivers with their conductors.
The relationship helps passengers to recover forgotten items in the tax. The passenger will have an opportunity to call the driver and inform him about forgotten, misplaced national ID, driving permit, gadgets, academic documents and other related item misplaced, forgotten in the public service vehicles.
The driver will communicate to the passenger on the stage where to pick off his forgotten item or the driver will deliver the valuables at our offices where all passengers can pick their recovered property. The app creates a public safety for all passengers, drivers and conductors since all have one platform for communication. The app has a Live tracking feature which can be used by vehicle owners, drivers and passengers.
The app is created to make public transport safer. Passengers are required to register accounts while drivers and tax owners are required to register vehicle details with their operational routes. The communication will harmonize cooperation between passengers, conductors, drivers and tax owners. Instant support to passengers, conductors and drivers from respective traffic officers on specific routes.”