Al -Baghdadi, Mustafa Rahim, spends approximately 8 hours a day, roaming the streets of the capital with his yellow car to search for customers, as his cash income ranges between 10 thousand dinars (6 dollars) and 30 thousand dinars (20 dollars), and in other days he may not have any customer.
Rahim is due to the low return of his work to suffocating crowds inside Baghdad, in addition to customers' resort to use smart applications to request taxis such as Uber, Karim and Taxi Reem.
Regarding his lack of participation in smart applications to achieve better gains and operate his car, Rahim explains that if he subscribes to these applications, the deduction rate will be large from the fare, in addition to the fact that the customers who use these applications are concentrated in the high -end areas of Baghdad, not popular or medium, such as the neighborhood that livesin it.
Among the other reasons that also stand in the face of taxi drivers in Baghdad is the spread of the Koruna's pandem.
Rahim is a university student who relies on his work to cover his university expenses..
Foreign companies for smart applications are seeking to attract taxis in Iraq to provide job opportunities for drivers.An official source in the Iraqi Karim Company - who asked not to be identified - refused to accuse the company of undermining the chances of the owners of other taxis in their daily work.
He told Al -Jazeera Net that his company came with the mindset of the partnership contract with the taxi sector, and began integrating them on its platform since it entered the Iraqi market in 2018, to achieve its primary goal of developing the transportation sector and transporting passengers by forming an integrated and effective institutional system.
The source reveals "the company providing a working model based on participatory transportation to achieve opportunities to collect additional income and reduce time and effort in searching for customers", and adds that Karim allows taxi drivers who join its team features and benefits, the most important of which is to get rid of the hassle of searching for passengers, which enables them to achieveVarases in terms of time, effort, operating costs and other features.
The matter was not absent from the Iraqi Ministry of Transport, as it adopted a new plan to perpetuate the work of taxi drivers in Baghdad.
The general manager of the private transportation company in the ministry, Karim Al -Jabri, told Al -Jazeera Net that a plan has been developed to regulate the transportation operations in Baghdad and other governorates and in coordination with the General Traffic Directorate.
He adds that the ministry’s plan intends to include all smart application companies to request cars in one system in the first place and to facilitate the daily work of taxi drivers..
Al -Jabri revealed that the numbers of taxis in Baghdad alone reach about 300,000 cars.
After the end of the parliamentary elections last October, the government decided to start the presence of urbanization for university students and the return of public sector departments to work fully, it is fully corresponding to the private sector companies that did not reduce working hours during the period of the pandemic period.
Besides, the authorities closed several roads in Baghdad after the elections, especially those close to the Green Zone, and imposing a state of military warning due to the departure of demonstrations, which led to the exacerbation of the phenomenon of crowding in the streets of the capital.
The most Iraqi provinces that need to create new roads are the capital, Baghdad, according to Manar Al -Ubaidi, head of the Future Iraq Foundation for Economic Studies.
Al -Ubaidi revealed to Al -Jazeera Net, "Baghdad needs new ways to accommodate the currently recorded cars 3.4 million cars at a time when the main and secondary roads are currently suitable for service 592 km, while the density of cars is 5834 cars per kilometer..
Al -Ubaidi talked about the other most intense provinces of cars, and it is related to Babylon, Basra, Najaf, Qadisiyah and Kirkuk.
According to the latest report of the Central Statistics Agency in Iraq, the total number of private sector cars amounted to 7 million and 26 thousand and 106 cars registered until the end of December of the year 2020, with the cars of the Kurdistan region that include all traffic boards.
