Chennai, January 31, 2018
Uber, the world’s largest on-demand ridesharing company, has released data on how India has relied on its services on New Year’s eve. Even on one of the busiest nights of the year for Uber, the company provided a reliable ride to and from celebrations, for anyone, anywhere at the push of a button.
Sanjay Gupta, Head of Marketing, Uber India and SA said, “New Year’s Eve is one of the busiest nights of the year for Uber across the globe. Our goal was to ensure riders can get a reliable ride at the tap of a button and avoid getting behind the wheel. From training driver partners to collaborating with traffic police and restaurants across many cities, we wanted to make a difference and reduce cases of driving under the influence in India. Hundreds of thousands of riders chose Uber, of which over 90,000 even used the UberPool option, considerably reducing the congestion on this busy night. This change in commuting behaviour is at the very core of our efforts towards decongesting India’s roads”.
Uber has observed that Delhi, NCR was the most active city with the highest number of trips taken on a single night. The most popular drop off locations ahead of midnight were GST Road, Meenambakkam and Phoenix Market City. When the clock struck midnight, close to 15,000 riders were in an Uber across the country. Over 90,000 riders used UberPool, opting to share their ride with others, and cut down on congestion during this busy night. In Delhi, NCR over 22,000 riders decided to share their ride making it the city to clock the highest number of UberPool rides, followed by Hyderabad and Bangalore .
Some people started and ended the party with friends. Over 5000 riders used the Multiple Stops and/or Split Fare features when heading to and from their celebrations! Out of this, close to 300 riders in Chennai alone used this feature.
A driver partner from Delhi, NCR completed 18 trips on this one night, making it the highest across the country, while one in Chennai completed 9 trips on New Year’s Eve.
Uber drivers provided great service on New Year’s Eve and received over 19,000 compliments just from this one night, out of which, drivers in Chennai received compliments from over 1,700 riders.