Meru Cabs has partnered exclusively with Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) to promote carpooling and create awareness around it across Meru’s operational cities in India. IOCL and Meru will inform people about the latter’s Carpool by Meru option in the Meru Cabs’ app, which will allow regular office goers or car users to share their ride with people going in the same direction, in order to help reduce traffic and pollution. As a promotion, the company is offering a Toyota sedan car to users of its app offering the maximum number of carpool rides in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane from 1 December 2015 to 31 January 2016. It is also offering a 50% discount (up to Rs 150) on its app bookings to IOCL customers, making a transaction of Rs 1,000 or more at 30 IOCL outlets in Mumbai. In September, Meru launched its carpool service in India across all of Meru’s 23 operational cities and tied up with Paytm as a payment option. Aimed at reducing the one person per vehicle situation, Meru said that users would be able to save costs on personal transport through its service and reduce the overall carbon footprint. The company also offers rides on inter-city travel with an emergency button where users can store 2 registered numbers for emergency situations. Ola Share: In October, online cab aggregator Ola launched Ola Share, a ride sharing service in beta, which would match users from ‘social groups’ like people from the same workplace, friends from college…
