Services · Mobile app development · Taxi apps
Codeeo delivers taxi booking app development in New York for yellow and green taxi operators, for-hire vehicle bases, black car services and travel companies moving visitors around the five boroughs. We build rider apps, driver apps and dispatch tools that respect how the Taxi and Limousine Commission divides the market, because in New York City the license you hold decides almost every feature your app is allowed to offer.
Street hails stay on the meter. Upfront fares for yellow and green cabs are possible only through a TLC-licensed e-hail app, and every for-hire trip must be dispatched through a licensed base. We design inside those rules instead of working around them.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
What the platform covers
New York has more ways to sell a ride than any other American city. A yellow cab may take street hails anywhere in the five boroughs. A green cab may not accept street hails in Manhattan below East 96th and West 110th Streets or at the airports. A black car or livery trip must be prearranged through a base, and the largest app operators fall under separate high-volume rules. An app that ignores these lines puts your license at risk. Every New York build starts by mapping which categories you operate, which you plan to add, and how riders reach you today, and only then do we pick the features below.
Riders request a medallion or green taxi from the app, watch the cab approach and pay in the app. The e-hail service must hold a TLC license, so we build the reporting, driver acceptance rules and trip data the Commission expects, and keep street-hail trips on the meter as required.
App bookings that sit squarely inside the e-hail license.
Since the TLC made its Flex Fare program permanent in 2024, licensed e-hail apps can quote yellow and green taxi riders a fixed price before the trip. Drivers see the offered fare and may decline. We build the quote engine, the driver offer screen and the rules for recalculating when a rider changes destination.
Riders know the price and drivers keep the choice.
Black car, livery and luxury limousine trips must run through a TLC-licensed base. The dispatch console assigns trips only to drivers and vehicles affiliated with your base, keeps the trip records the TLC requires, and separates corporate account work from retail bookings.
Every for-hire trip is dispatched and recorded correctly.
Manhattan fares carry the state congestion surcharge, trips into the MTA's Congestion Relief Zone pick up their own charge, and bridges and tunnels add tolls. The fare engine applies each component by route and time, itemizes them on the receipt and keeps the tables editable for when the state or the MTA changes them.
Receipts that match the rules on the day of the trip.
At JFK and LaGuardia the Port Authority runs the taxi lines, and under current rules taxis cannot be e-hailed there. Trips to the airports can still be booked, and the JFK flat fare to Manhattan applies where it fits. The app sends arriving riders to the taxi line and treats Newark, across the river in New Jersey, under its own fare rules.
Airport riders get the right instructions and the right fare.
The TLC has pushed for wheelchair accessible service across taxis and for-hire vehicles alike. Riders can request an accessible vehicle, the platform records whether one was sent and how long the wait was, and screen reader support and large text run through every rider screen.
Accessible requests are served and documented.
New York drivers speak Bengali, Urdu, Punjabi, Haitian Creole, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin and many more languages. Driver prompts, earnings screens and safety messages can be built in the languages your fleet needs, so an instruction about a pickup or a rule change is understood the first time.
Drivers act on instructions they can actually read.
Banks, law firms, Midtown hotels and event companies book black cars on account. We build company profiles, authorized riders, approval rules, reference codes and monthly invoicing, with trip receipts that finance teams can match to cost centers without a spreadsheet in between.
Account work is booked and billed in one place.
Late-night shifts carry risk on both sides. Drivers get an emergency button that alerts the base, trip sharing and rider details for prearranged trips, while riders can share their live trip with a friend. Alerts appear on the dispatch console the moment they are raised, with the vehicle's last position attached.
Both sides of the trip have a fast way to get help.
Riders in New York leave phones, bags and laptops behind constantly, and complaints about a trip often reach the TLC through 311. Each report in the app is tied to the exact trip, driver and vehicle, the base is alerted, and the full record is ready if the Commission asks for it during a complaint review.
Every lost item or complaint points to one trip record.
Who we build for
The right starting point depends on your license. A medallion owner, a green cab operator, an FHV base and a travel company each work under different TLC rules, and each has its own reason to want an app. Some need to win back riders from the big platforms; others need to stop losing bookings to a busy phone line. These are the situations we hear most often from New York.
Yellow cabs still own the street hail, but riders increasingly book from their phones. A licensed e-hail app with Flex Fare quotes lets your fleet compete for those riders while hailed trips stay on the meter. We plan the licensing steps with your counsel, then build the rider app, driver offer flow and Commission reporting together, so the product is ready when the license is.
Licensing and product planned side by side.
Many livery and black car bases in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens still take most bookings by phone. A rider app, automated dispatch and a driver app cut the time each booking takes and give the base cleaner trip records for the TLC. We can move you across gradually, so regular customers who prefer to call are never turned away.
Phone customers stay while app customers grow.
Tour operators, hotels and event planners move visitors between Midtown, the airports, the cruise terminals and the big attractions. Prearranged trips must go through a licensed base, so we build booking and manifest tools that hand trips to your partner bases, track them live and message guests when plans change because of traffic, weather or a late flight.
Your booking front, licensed bases on the road.
Ride hailing app development in New York means planning for the TLC's high-volume for-hire rules if you intend to scale, including driver pay standards and regular data reporting. We help you scope a product that fits the license you can realistically obtain, and design the platform so it can grow from a single base into a larger service without a rebuild.
Scope to the license you can get, build for the one you want.
How we engage
Codeeo has no New York office. Our 80+ people in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi work remotely with US clients, and every discovery session, design review and demo runs by video call. Most operators start with a fixed scope first release for their license type, then stay on a retainer to absorb TLC rule changes and add features. Groups running several bases or a mix of taxis and for-hire vehicles sometimes take a dedicated team, so the same engineers carry knowledge of Commission rules from one release to the next.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
Native or cross-platform apps, depending on how much the driver app relies on background location and in-vehicle hardware, plus a web dispatch console and hosting in US data centers. Every choice is explained to you before we commit to it.
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Yes, and the license depends on what the app dispatches.
An app that lets riders hail yellow or green taxis needs a TLC e-hail license. An app that dispatches black cars, liveries or luxury limousines must work through a TLC-licensed base, and larger operations fall under the high-volume for-hire rules. We map your situation in discovery and build to that license, while your counsel handles the application itself with the Commission. If your plans change midway, for example from a single base to an e-hail service, the platform is structured so that switch adds modules rather than replacing the apps you already run.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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