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PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:55 am 
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No free lunches here either Andy. I think myself lucky if I get bought a Big Mack and fries!

The way I see things is that many of the smaller companies work in rather strange ways and while we like to provide a flexible system, some requests are so obscure that you just have to admit that it wouldn’t be economically viable to write such code. I often tell people that if our software doesn’t meet your needs then it’s worth considering just how you’re running the business. The larger companies tend to be pretty straightforward and it’s just a case of how much does it cost and what’s the support like. The irony is that the smaller the company the more demands they make on us so if anything we should charge these more for support but that just isn’t doable.

Just been reading back about core systems. Not quite sure what constitutes a “core system” but assuming this is all the office software and hardware, for us, that would be between £5K (2 user) and £12K (10 user) typically with an annual support cost of £1,500 per company. We would normally recommend one workstation for every 35 working cars but that does depend on the nature of the work.

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Just to refresh your memory Bill, we wanted multiple pick-up multiple-drop TaxiBus street level routing algorythms in real time (among other factors). You said it was "too far away from you at the moment" but understood what we wanted.

The problem was with people who said they could do it, but then couldn't. The people who said they could do it as an extra for a price, but wanted us to fund all the R&D on it (fair comment, but it made it too expensive for us), and the people who said their system already did it, but didn't.

Then, there were the people who could actually do it (principally the bus industry suppliers) but who wanted to down-grade from Bus programmes which didn't work with the cab side.

To be fair, there were three suppliers who came up with most of the goods, to name them: Mobi, Trapeze and Logical Transport. Only the first of these could actually handle the mixture of scheduled bus, taxibus and taxi (at that time), but the whole affair became so complicated and dragged on so long, that the Council had a change of leadership/direction, and my Boss lost interest and invested his money elsewhere.

End of story.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:54 am 
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did anyone view the alantaxi system it looks very good the way the datahead is built in to the radio and the priceing structure seems so simple


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 Post subject: ref: Cordic system
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are Cordic system using dell pc and pda?


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Dell PC and Orbit XDA

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:41 pm 
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how much for the Orbit XDA


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I don't know. Ring them up and ask them.

You can supply your own if you want. They will still want to charge you for the licence to upload their software on it.

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how much is the license then?


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I reckon that depends how many you want to buy.

PM Don and ask him.

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i can get them for £100 each or if you buy off a junkie for £20 that just robbed a city cab lol


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 Post subject: cordic best network
PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:48 pm 
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T. wrote:

When the Cordic system came out about 3 years ago the PMR camp said it was just a gimmick, using a computer toy to run a taxi company, etc,. How quickly things change, every despatch system company is trying to catch up, either with their own GPRS system or adapting the PMR, or a hybrid of both. Technology is moving at a spectacular rate, Cordic certainly stimulated a growth spurt in developement. I was looking for a system about that time, all the major players Auriga etc would not even consider talking to me because I was looking for a system that would work for a small, even micro, taxi company, we had 8 cars. Cordic were sceptical at first but were prepared to look at the possibilities they were never dismissive or off-hand. They realised small companies can grow and did not want to offend or alienate a potential future customer. They trimmed their system to the minimum fully working option and we agreed a budget. The biggest difference between Cordic and the others that did talk to me was, at Cordic I spoke to technicians and developers not salesmen. Cordic work with their customers, the service and back-up is outstanding. In 3 years we have not lost a single shift, the longest down time is about 2 hours, every element is backed up, built in redundancy. If broadband fails, autoswitch to dial-up, GPRS failure, autoswitch to GSM etc. these failures and outages are very rare but are accounted for in the set up. PMR is reliable, but sets fail, mic's break, repeaters fail, no system is 100 % reliable but in our experience Cordic wins hands down on reliability. The system is easy to use and infinately expandable, Cordic is the benchmark for all taxi despatch systems PMR or GPRS.




Who is your network provider and which handsets/pda's do you use?


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as a driver i have used auriga system,autocab system and now using cordic,,,i will say that the autocab system is the best and that this cordic is as a pain in the arse....as a driver i as many drivers like to see all the info on our screen as it happens ie when a job is there to be bidded on i can do it at the eariest possible time,,this i could do on the autocab system but with this cordic system you only see what is happening every 20 seconds when the pda refreshes itself so ding 1 second it refreshes then that is what is on the system at that point then its stale for the next 20 seconds...so in a 10 hour shift you are only seeing a fresh screen for a time of 30 minutes...if you get my drift...


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 5:56 pm 
cab controller wrote:
did anyone view the alantaxi system it looks very good the way the datahead is built in to the radio and the priceing structure seems so simple


There's so much messing about with that system it's unreal, the buttons you have to press to clear yourself and accept a job is beyond a joke.


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