Rooting For Safe Inter-city Bus Travel

GOGOBUS IS CRACKING REAL-WORLD ISSUES IN THE SPHERE OF INTER-CITY BUS TRAVEL WITH TECHNOLOGY. SUMESH SOMAN LOOKS AT THE APPROACH TO A TECH-DRIVEN, SAFER INTER-CITY BUS COMMUTE IN THE OFFING.

- SUMESH SOMAN

Shared mobility took a beating when the pandemic was at its peak. The bus industry largely constituting of private bus operators died its death with only migrants managing to gain access to inter-city travel. Either through special rescue services or to an extent through the State Transport Undertakings (STUs) pitching in for select pockets. Fast forward by two years, we continue to crawl towards an endemic with the only exception being of having learnt to live with the mutations. Post the vaccination drive picking up, the resultant brevity has opened up the bus industry with daily gross transaction volumes said to be going up. Here, the erstwhile contact-less services that came in, post demonetisation and the advent of payment wallets, continue to be prioritised. Commuters are more accustomed today to contactless services powered by technology and service companies like gogoBus than ever before.