"The First Real Taxi Meter Innovation in 100 Years" -- Fast Company
"Haggle no more...the world's first motorbike taxi meter" -- Newsweek's Budget Travel
"The Moto-Meter: What Motorcycle Taxis Have Been Waiting For" -- All About Bikes Magazine
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World Moto is the global authority on the $500 billion dollar a year motorcycle taxi industry.
World Moto has revolutionized the industry by inventing the Moto-Meter, a landmark product that CNN, Newsweek, Wired, Moneylife, Inc., among others, are calling "the world's first motorcycle taxi meter" and "world's first portable taxi meter" and "first-ever black box for motorcycles," while the Times named it "one of the most significant innovations of this decade" and Fast Company declared it "The First Real Taxi Meter Innovation in 100 Years...a $3 billion dollar idea."
As reported by the World Bank, "In the past decade, there has been a spectacular growth in the use of moto-taxis...their number is expected to increase by more than 50 percent in the next 5 years."
Moto Taxis:
$500 billion dollar a year industry (equal to the total global advertising market)
Largest taxi force on earth
Billions of users
More moto taxis in Bangkok alone than taxicabs in the entire United States
Solution
Little Melika is one of over 100 million school children who are forced to haggle a fare each day on an unmetered motorcycle taxi with an imposing adult male stranger just to go to school. At the same time, on the opposite side of the globe, Adam Sandler is busy taking a limobike through heavy traffic to a private jet in Van Nuys. From the boulevards of Beverly Hills, to the barrios of Buenos Aires, the Moto-Meter prevents accidents and removes the sources of stress from billions of lives.
Links to press articles are below.
Moto-Meter
The patent-pending device is portable, ruggedized, tamperproof, and features four popular devices in one:
•Taxi meter
•Black box
•GPS
•Digital ad display (LED or LCD)
This new twist on an old device eliminates the industry's most serious problems and gives operators, communities and any regulatory agencies an easy and affordable method of standardizing moto taxi fares. Benefits of the Moto-Meter include accident and crime prevention, safer travel for women and children, automation/simplification, and greater safety, income, prestige and enjoyment for drivers.
And its portability allows it to be used anywhere with any vehicle, or between different vehicles (taxis, ridesharing, autorickshaws, pedicabs, etc.).
"The market for the device is potentially enormous." - Fast Company
Moto Taxis
Celebrities use them, businesses use them, people from all walks of life use them. Moto taxi connect people to just about everything: homes, schools, offices, markets, malls, businesses, skytrain stations...and they put people in touch with a nearly unlimited variety of local goods and services.
They are the world's fastest growing form of taxi, plying the streets and byways of over 100 countries, from Argentina to Zimbabwe, including the nations of Europe, and the U.S.A.
Timeline
The Moto-Meter was invented by Paul Giles in 2003 (first prototype); and subsequently developed by Paul Giles and Chris Ziomkowski, the founders of World Moto.
Contact
To purchase, become a distributor, or for investment opportunities, email Paul Giles at: paulg@worldmoto.com. For phone contact, please visit World Moto's website for contact details at www.worldmoto.com or www.motometer.com.
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Press
Many articles on the Moto-Meter have been published in the press. Nine articles are located here:
Fast Company:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1725184/introducing-the-first-real-taxi-meter-inno...
Wired: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/03/entrepreneur-brings-meters-to-motorcycle...
Newsweek - Budget Travel: http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2011/03/hagglefree_mototaxis.html
All About Bikes Magazine: http://allaboutbikes.com/motorcyle-news/general-news/4101-the-moto-meter-what...
Spot Cool Stuff: http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/bangkok-thailand/motorcycle-taxi-meters
The CityFix: http://thecityfix.com/meters-for-moto-taxis/
The Bangkok Post: http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/economics/206423/fare-business
Phuket Gazette: http://www.phuketgazette.net/archives/articles/2011/article10053.html
The Manager Daily, Thailand's most widely read business newspaper (Thai language):
http://www.manager.co.th/cyberbiz/viewNews.aspx?newsid=9530000158016
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Moto Meter: What Motorcycle Taxis Have Been Waiting Forby WorldMoto428 views
An official public trial of the Moto-Meter is now underway on motorcycle taxis in Bangkok. This video was shot on Thonglor Rd. The conversations are in Thai.
WorldMoto 6 months ago