Indian team leads tech for cab booking in UK

Chennai: Bengaluru-based mobility engineering team of Uber is leading the technological development of a complex integration with a third-party cab aggregator in the UK.

‘Local Cab’, is currently being piloted in Plymouth and Oxford in the UK, and allows residents there to book third-party cabs offered by aggregator, Autocab, through the Uber app.

The mobility engineering team led the integration, which included breaking Uber’s tech stack and building a new service, allowing Uber riders to be paired with a third-party driver.

The team integrated the Uber app with Autocab’s marketplace with the help of third party (3P) application programming interfaces (APIs) developed for local cabs.