The Second Occurrence Algorithm is one of the algorithms created to deal with the cost of compliance in relation to the regulations, to be honest, it would be unfair and heavily disingenuous for us to not take this burdern of compliance seriously on both the passenger and the driver, so we had to provide a situation that brought honest and true relief to lower the cost of transportation. Before the 18th of June 2026 the algorithm will not be in effect, this is because we need to utilise the First and Third Occurrence algorithms to first bring some relief, a cushion, some room of tolerance to work with for the driver so that once we introduce the tiered structure of credit kilometres the drivers are in a position to take on that kind of loss. How this will be done is that the platform will calculate the frequency at which the service is used, so how many times a week do you use the platform as a passenger from the day you started the profile, from this we will provide the most relief to the passengers with the most frequent use of the service. The structure is as follows: -> If frequency of use per week is 2 times and under per week than no free kilometres are provided to you. -> If frequency of use per week is between 3 to 5 times per week than a total of 10 credit kilometres are provided to you. -> If frequency of use per week is between 6 to 9 times per week than a total of 20 acredit kilometres are provided to you. -> If frequency of use per week is equal to or above 10 times per week than a total of 30 credit kilometres are provided to you. Now, keep in mind that each passenger is allowed a maximum of 3.75 free kilometres per ride, this is so that relief is spread out across the use of the platform. We also check the accumulation of these kilometres, by that we mean that if you reach your cap of either 10, 20 or 30 credit kilometres, so you ran out of free kilometres, you get transfered to the use of Third Occurrence algorithm, this is so that you can pay back the credited kilometres. At the time of writing, 30 kilometres translate to about R85 than is provided as credit. A passenger will, however, take twice the time to pay back the credit kilometres than it took them to accumulate them, by this we mean that if you take 3.75 credit kilometres 8 times you will pay it back across 16 rides, so each ride 1.875 kilometres is added that you pay back. The Third Occurrence algorithm is specifically designed to deal with this issue of credit by using the principle of "collectively you pay more but individually you pay less", this is so that drivers are more than incentivised to utilise the Second Occurrence Algorithm. This, keep in mind, will also work in conjunction with ride-pairing so that the wastage fee doesn't eat too much into your credit kilometres. If in a ride you don't finish your kilometres, they roll over, so in some situations it will be more than 8 rides that you are provided credit kilometres because they will roll over. Once a passenger reaches a cap, so they have used all of their credit kilometres, they will be transfered to the use of the Third Occurrence Algorithm, the same goes for the driver, if they have accepted enough rides that reach a cap of 30 credit kilometres they will utilise the Third Occurrence Algorithm. Once the credit is paid of, the passenger will once again be allowed to use the Second Occurrence Algorithm, the same goes for the driver, if passengers under the Third Occurrence Algorithm have fully paid their credit of 30 kilometres, the driver will be switched back to the Second Occurrence Algorithm. Ride-pairing is a mechanism we introduce so as to further provide a limit, or a measure of control, when it comes to how price is determined. Ride-pairing is the process of taking two passengers that are in two different jurisdictions but who have parallel pick up and drop off points and we pair them, by this we mean, if passenger A's drop off point is in the area of passenger B's pick up point, and if passenger B's drop off point is in the area of passenger A's pick up point we take those two passengers and create a ride pair. What a ride pair is, is that we pair two passengers so that we can reduce or completely eradicate the wastage fee becaause if a driver takes a passenger from A to Midpoint of A and B, and than take the second passenger back to their jurisdiction than there is no wastage because everything happens within the jurisdiction. The meet point is already accounted for in the pricing model, this will be a safe place where driver A and driver B will meet to exchange passenger A and passenger B for the purposes of completing the ride process. The fare of a passenger will be split into two, so if your fare is R100 you will pay driver A R45 and driver B R55, this is dependent on the distance between the pick up point and the meet point, as well as the distance between the meet point and the drop off point. This also means that the initial price a passenger receives before ride-pairing will be different than the one received once ride-pairing has been established, this is because the wastage fee is eliminated. The Second Occurrence Algorithm functions in two ways, so it can achieve ride-pairing: the first is that 8 minutes are taken from the minute a passenger initiates the ride process so that it can search for an adjacent passenger that achieves the forementioned conditions, this will be under the "Now" schedule, the second is that a passenger will schedule a ride, let us say for the following day at 05:30, this is so that we can also deal with the matter of demand and shortage of drivers, we have a scheduling mechanism that is primarily aimed at dealing with the issue of shortages and an exceeded demand of the service at a particular time or period during the day. This will be under the "Later" schedule. The set time of 8-minutes is what was needed to adequately look for a pairing, though this would be an inconvenience of the passenger because of time, we do heavily apologise for that on our end there just wasn't an alternative at our current disposal that we could utilise that could still provide the sort of reflief and convenience we aspire to provide to our passengers. As time progresses we will introduce new features and mechanisms that will either directly or implicitly decrease the price of our service whilst also making sure drivers make more money. To further show our commitment to not only affordable prices but prices that are profitable for the driver, our service fee structure under this algorithm is as follows: -> If price is under or equal to R33, service fee is R1. -> If price is above R33 but under R60, service fee is R3. -> If price is above R60 but under R110, service fee is R5. -> If price is above R110 but under R185, service fee is R10. -> If price is above R185 but under R260, service fee is R15. -> If price is above R260, service fee is R22.
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