Yandex.Taxi now available in Armenian Vanadzor

YEREVAN, August 23. /ARKA/. Yandex.Taxi, Russia's largest online taxi booking services is now available in Armenia’s third-largest town of Vanadzor, the administrative capital of northern province of Lori. Now, Vanadzor residents can use the Yandex.Taxi app - a quick, easy, and safe way to order a taxi. No calls, no waiting on hold — just one tap, and the order is sent to the available closest driver so they can reach the passenger as quickly as possible.

Yandex.Taxi said the average waiting time in Vanadzor is 5 minutes. The minimum cost of a trip in the town is 200 drams. It includes the arrival of the taxi and two kilometers of travel. Then 100 drams per every kilometer. When leaving the city, the cost of every kilometer is no more than 150 drams. 

"Our technologies and algorithms make taxi a convenient and inexpensive way of travel. By automatically transferring the order to the nearest available driver, we shorten the car's arrival time and, and consequently, the cost of the service, because the driver does not need to go to the customer across the city. Now we have the most affordable trips in Vanadzor,’ the head of the Yandex.Taxi international development service, Mushegh Sahakyan, said. 

When ordering a taxi it is not necessary to know the exact address of the destination, one just has to specify the name of the institution or organization - the service will find them on the map and transport the passenger. 

Yandex.Taxi does not work directly with drivers. It cooperates with taxi companies and dispatch services. In Vanadzor 50 cars from two taxi companies are connected to the service. Yandex is already available  in Yerevan and Gyumri. Free Yandex.Taxi application is available for iOS and Android.

Yandex.Taxi works in Armenia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Moldova and Georgia. In total, more than 200,000 drivers are connected to the service. -0-

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16:34 08/23/2017