TAXMOBIL is neither subject to §47 Personenbeförderungsrecht (Right concerning passenger transport, PBefG) nor to § 49 (cabs and rental car) but represents an own form of transportation which is in the usual as well as in our case regulated by an experimental article in the PBefG. This article has nearly become a right as hundreds of “exceptional transports” have already been authorized before. TAXMOBIL resorts totally on the cars of the taxi industry but is not a taxi company as it is known. It means grouped transport controlled by demand. The cars in use e.g. cabs which are chartered out together with the drivers on an hourly basis to TAXMOBIL correspond to the specific passenger transport license. Furthermore TAXMOBIL represents an additional source of income for the taxi company and as the case may be also for the directors of local public transports. This is what now all of the administrations, agencies and district communities to which we presented our concept have recognized and what gives us the feeling of great approval.
Often, the administrations contacted us directly and especially the managers of directing levels informed us that to them our concept seemed capable to ease the problems in transport which keep growing. According to them, there won’t be any further difficulties on the part of politicians with contrary opinions.
By now, the relation to high administrative facilities is that good, the approval to TAXMOBIL is that broad and the political lobby is that strong also on the part of the Deutsche Bahn that there is no question of permission left.