Transport
VTC
Letter by letterStandardB1Meaning
voiture de transport avec chauffeur
The car with driver booked through an app, unlike the taxi hailed in the street. The word also means the driver: « il est VTC ».
How it is said
vé-té-cé
Gender and article
un VTC · masculine
Where you meet it
An app, a press article, an airport sign.
Example
Point de rencontre VTC : parking P2, niveau 0.
Ride-hailing (VTC) pick-up point: car park P2, level 0.
In the DELF
reading B1
Watch out
Masculine: un VTC. VTCs are not allowed to pick up a customer hailing them in the street: that is the legal difference from a taxi.