🚚
truQ Services
  • Getting Started
  • Environment
  • Status Codes
  • Booking Management
    • Trip Booking
      • Getting a Quote
      • Booking an open trip
      • Booking a standard trip
      • Booking a merchant trip
    • Payment and Order Confirmation
      • Standard trip order confirmation
      • Business trip order confirmation
  • Parameter Guide
    • Trip Types
    • Vehicle Categories
    • Source and Destination
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  1. Parameter Guide

Trip Types

The trip types we provide on truQ Services, and how they work.

Understanding how trip types and pricing models work. There are currently four major supported trip types, and every trip has to be either of the following;

  1. INTRASTATE - This is a trip configuration that works within a city or administrative state. They do not cross out of the administrative classification of a state. That is if the state of a trip’s pickup location is Lagos, the state of the drop-off location must also be Lagos.

  2. INTERSTATE - This is a trip configuration that works whenever a trip extends out of the same state. There is a specified pricing algorithm that works for this model, based on the different pricing base configurations for the different states.

  3. DISTRIBUTION-PER-CITY - This trip configuration works only for your onboarded businesses. Before your organisation approves an onboarded business, commercials are agreed and pricing configurations are set up on the dashboard for that business per category size. Pricing covers the base fare per city.

  4. DISTRIBUTION-PER-STOP - This trip configuration works only for onboarded businesses. The pricing covers the base fare per number of stops on a single trip. Stops refers to the multiple drop-offs that your vehicle makes while on a trip. Drop-offs have a bare fare per stop, and other determining factors to consider for the pricing algorithm, which considers a flat rate, stop rate, and a stop-cap. The stop-cap determines if the flat rate is charged or the stop rate is charged. If the number of drop-offs on a trip exceeds the stop count, the stop rate is charged per number of stops, whereas if the number of drop-offs is below the stop cap, the flat rate price is used as the base fare for the trip. Another important determinant is a near-trip and far-trip factor, which considers the distance of the trip which is measured in kilometres, to determine if it is a long trip or a far trip. If the distance of the trip is below the distance threshold, the near trip rate is applied, else the far trip rate is applied. These determinants factor in how a distribution per stop model works. This configuration is also set up on the dashboard for the businesses using this model

Last updated 1 year ago