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Mobility company ONWRD has launched a new subscription service for arranging on-demand and pre-booked taxi and chauffeur travel.
The new Journey service provides real time tracking and communication, ensuring passengers can see the exact whereabouts of the driver, and companies can track whether their passenger has been collected. CO2 emissions are also tracked and reported and invoices for the journey are sent directly to the employer, ensuring cost transparency, and meaning there is no need for the employee to have to pay and reclaim expenses.
ONWRD managing director Mark Thompson said: "Pre-pandemic, UK businesses were spending an estimated £3 billion per year on taxi journeys and, as business travel continues to increase, this spend will increase in proportion to other modes of mobility.
"We know that the availability of rental vehicles has been severely impacted, above all for short notice, short duration hires, as suppliers are unable to fulfil this demand with limited fleets. In addition, disruptions and cancellations across the rail network makes this an unreliable, not to mention expensive, option for many.
"With company car ownership on the decline, giving customers access to a UK-wide network of hundreds of thousands of fully vetted vehicles and drivers makes complete sense.
"Customers already work with ONWRD because we take away all of the headaches and leg work involved in keeping their staff on the move through vehicle rental and subscription. The ONWRD Journey service does just the same, but with journeys of just a few minutes or a few miles."
To deliver the new service, ONWRD, which is owned by AAM Group, has partnered with mobility platform Jyrney.
Jyrney co-founder and CEO Daniel Price said: "We are delighted to be working alongside ONWRD and AAM Group on the first of a number of exciting projects.
"Mark was one of the first in the fleet sector to approach us with an idea to bring the concept of onward transportation to their customer base, saving time, costs and expense claim processes.
"Jyrney further enhances that thinking with proprietary technology, bringing the supplier network and customer together on to a single platform and easily integrated API."
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