Uber Shuttle launches operations in Mexico City

Uber Shuttle, Uber’s proscription work successful vans oregon buses with fixed routes and schedules astatine a little terms than its accepted services, has launched successful Mexico City up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. 

The service, which concisely operated successful Mexico City successful 2024, offering trips to concerts, has been reintroduced successful clip for the planetary shot tournament. Currently, it operates rides to and from Santa Fe, an upscale vicinity successful westernmost Mexico City.

Uber Shuttle’s nascent Mexico City work is starting disconnected with rides to and from Santa Fe, but its vans and buses are expected to go a acquainted portion of the metropolis country arsenic millions of World Cup visitors commencement arriving. (@FinanzasMx_/X)

“We’ve been investigating this merchandise and making definite it works truly good earlier introducing it into an situation that volition person a ample influx of people,” Uber’s planetary Vice President of Mobility Pradeep Parameswaran told El CEO magazine. 

Uber Shuttle allows users to stock vans oregon buses to circumstantial points specified arsenic enactment areas, universities oregon airports, without the emblematic dynamic-demand pricing scheme. It operates implicit fixed routes betwixt circumstantial points and with pre-established schedules, thereby offering a much accessible and predictable alternate for multi-passenger transport, particularly during highest hours and ample events.

The caller work besides advertises itself arsenic a safer alternate to accepted autobus transportation, arsenic it features a information PIN, which consists of a four-digit codification to corroborate that passengers committee the close vehicle. This diagnostic is besides disposable successful Uber’s car-based services successful Mexico. 

Uber’s strategy up of the FIFA World Cup besides includes dialog sessions with section and national authorities to specify the cognition of its drivers astatine the Mexico City International Airport (AICM), wherever the capital’s authorities besides plans to run its ain taxi app. 

Earlier this year, Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada announced the improvement of a mobile exertion dubbed Taxi CDMX, meant to modernize taxi services up of the sporting event.

Parameswaran said that Uber does not see the Taxi CDMX app a hazard oregon a threat; rather, it sees it arsenic different measurement toward strengthening municipality mobility.

“We firmly judge that Uber and taxis indispensable collaborate to warrant amended services,” helium said. Further accusation astir Taxi CDMX is forthcoming.

In Mexico, Uber has much than 300,000 registered drivers, and its users fig astir 25 cardinal annually. However, the FIFA World Cup, which volition instrumentality spot successful June and July, volition summation those numbers arsenic immoderate 5 cardinal visitors are expected to get successful the country for the 13 matches that volition beryllium played successful Mexico. 

With reports from El Ceo and Expansión