Ride-hailing bus service Kummute – previously Kumpool – now offers Kumride, a ride-hailing service that uses smaller, private vehicles for personal travel between zones.
The most recent addition, Kumride is a ride-hailing service within the more conventional sense. Nonetheless, Kumride stays different from other ride-hailing service providers in providing transportation to zones, quite than specific destinations. Kumride is claimed to supply ‘personalised trips’ for distances from 3 km to 7 km, using smaller vehicles like sedans, MPVs and vans.
In contrast, Kumpool is an on-demand shuttle service using larger vehicles (seating 10 individuals or more), gathering bookings from passengers, then proceeds upon an optimised route based on the passengers’ pick-up and drop-off points inside a given zone of shorter travel, as much as 3 km, in line with Kummute.
At time of writing, Kumride zones on the app look like in operation 5 or 6 days weekly, with the KLGCC, Bandar Sunway and Central Sunway zones offline on Sundays, while the Petaling Jaya and Wangsa Maju zones are offline on Saturdays and Sundays, for instance. Cyberjaya and UTM/Taman Universiti zones on Kumride are operational seven days, nevertheless.
To make use of, a pick-up point is to be chosen from the choice of available stops displayed on the map of the zone being viewed, followed by the choice of a drop-off point. At time of writing, there are two payment methods – money, and Kumpool Wallet.
For the latter, topping up is in denominations of RM50, RM200 and RM300, or a sum of the user’s selecting could be entered. Payment for top-ups via online banking, credit/debit card or e-wallet (currently displayed are Alipay, GrabPay, ShopeePay, Touch ‘n Go eWallet, WeChatPay, and Boost.
Kummute is offered for Android and iOS devices, from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, respectively.
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