Jul 28, 2008 - Los Angeles, California - RideCharge, the leading provider of ground travel booking, cashless payment, and expense management software, today announced the launch of its flagship software to help corporations streamline ground travel costs, including taxi travel—a top source of corporate fraud in the US. Earlier this year, RideCharge launched a product integrated with the Concur Travel & Expense, and Concur Cliqbook Travel products (<a href="http://www.ridecharge.com/news">click here</a> to see the article). Today, RideCharge announces that its technology is now available to corporate and individual business travelers via a stand-alone product at <a href="http://www.ridecharge.com" target="RideCharge">www.ridecharge.com</a>.<br /><br />RideCharge eliminates the estimated 20-30% of often accidental over-reporting of taxi expenses by employees with verifiable electronic receipts. And, it replaces high-price sedan trips with lower-cost taxi options.<br /><br /> “Next to rental cars, our travelers use taxis as the most frequent form ground travel,” said Joe Makito, Travel Manager at the Corporate Executive Board. “This is a significant area of travel spend for us and – until now – it has been very difficult to manage. We chose to use RideCharge to automate the entire ground travel process - from the booking of the taxi through the completion of the employee expense report with an electronic receipt. RideCharge enables us to manage ground transportation as easily as we can air or hotel. It helps us deliver a richer experience to our travelers while achieving previously unattainable traveler tracking and cost containment.”<br /><br />RideCharge protects against traveler identity theft, by enabling travelers to pay for taxis without handing a credit card to a driver. Using RideCharge enhances traveler safety, by allowing travelers to avoid hailing unidentified taxis off the street, often late at night in unfamiliar cities, with no record of the car being dispatched or of the driver identity.<br /><br />“Ensuring traveler safety and security was a top reason we implemented RideCharge at ITT. With RideCharge, we know who is driving our travelers and that our travelers and their credit card information are safe. And, we don’t have to pay limousine prices, because RideCharge connects our travelers with best-in-class metropolitan taxi fleets operating at the local metered rates,” said Rene Colyler of ITT Corporation.<br />RideCharge allows business travelers electronically book, pay and get reimbursed for metropolitan taxi, sedan and shuttle transportation. Bookings can be done directly on mobile smartphones like Blackberries, or online. The system provides real-time ‘where’s my car’ updates to travelers’ mobile phones, and E-receipts are auto-emailed to travelers, eliminating paper receipt tracking.<br /><br />Over 200 corporations such as E-Trade, Paramount Pictures, ITT Corporation, and the Corporate Executive Board have implemented RideCharge to reduce costs, and enhance traveler security. <br /><br /><strong>About RideCharge</strong><br /><br />RideCharge offers the first Direct Connect Taxi booking and expense management engine at www.ridecharge.com. With innovative use of web and mobile phone technology, RideCharge delivers a new level of convenience to business travelers. RideCharge allows travel managers to control ground transportation costs by providing electronic booking, payment, and expense management for taxi, sedan, limo and shuttle services. RideCharge gets rid of paper receipts, allows travelers to find reliable service in unfamiliar cities, and helps streamline ground transportation costs. When using RideCharge as a traveler, you’ll experience a new level of convenience. You can book reliable vehicles that are tracked electronically to deliver patent pending ‘where’s my car’ messages directly to your mobile phone, in real time. When your car is 10 minutes away, you’ll know. When it’s outside, you know. Stuck in a meeting, but need to book a car? No problem: RideCharge lets you book rides on your mobile phone. The trips are automatically inserted into your itinerary and the resulting charge is automatically captured and added to your expense report. You even pay for your rides with your mobile phone by electronically sending charges to your corporate card, so you don’t have to carry cash and never have to track paper receipts again. You book, charge, and expense—all with no paper and no hassle. <br /><br />More information about RideCharge is available at <a href="http://www.ridecharge.com">www.RideCharge.com</a>. <br /><br />To speak with a RideCharge representative <a href="mailto:info@ridecharge.com">click here</a>.<br /><br />RideCharge Press Contact: Toby Russell, 703-579-6917<br /><br />To see the original article <a href="http://nbta.hsyndicate.org/news/4037020.html">click here</a>.<br />