Birds Eye Systems public transport information app Ridlr has launched in Delhi. The app will provide real time bus, metro and rapid metro schedules for the city. It will also help people locate the nearest bus stop or metro station and allow them to download time-tables to their phones for offline use. Other than Delhi, the Ridlr app works in Bangalore (Metro and BMTC), Chandigarh (CTU), Jaipur (JCTSL), Pune (PMPML and local trains), Mumbai (BEST, TMT, NMMT, KDMT, MBMT, central/western/harbour railways, metro and monorail), Chennai (southern railways and MTC buses) and Ahmedabad (AMTS, Janmarg BRTS). As of now the app is Android only. On downloading the app users are prompted to choose a city. On selecting the city, Pune in our case, the app displays an option to view bus or train time tables, ‘plan your travel’ and a favourite timetable. The bus schedule option only let users search buses by the number, while the train schedule option lets users look up trains based on starting and destination stations. The plan your travel option automatically detects the user's current location and on adding a destination within the same city, suggests ways to get there via bus, train or metro either by walking (to a bus stop) or by rickshaw. According to Ridlr, it uses its database of time-tables to plan this option using the most convenient routes to the destination as well as factor in roadblocks and diversions before suggesting the optimal route. The journey can also be customized using multiple…
Please subscribe to MediaNama. Don't share prints and PDFs.
You May Also Like
News
Google has released a Google Travel Trends Report which states that branded budget hotel search queries grew 179% year over year (YOY) in India, in...
Advert
135 job openings in over 60 companies are listed at our free Digital and Mobile Job Board: If you’re looking for a job, or...
News
By Aroon Deep and Aditya Chunduru You’re reading it here first: Twitter has complied with government requests to censor 52 tweets that mostly criticised...
News
Rajesh Kumar* doesn’t have many enemies in life. But, Uber, for which he drives a cab everyday, is starting to look like one, he...