According to a survey conducted a while ago, Bengaluru ranked as the sixth worst city in the world for commuting. Years later, the condition in the city still hasn’t improved
Rapid increase in vehicles in Bengaluru has caused an enormous parking crunch. Multi-level car parking construction in major IT parks, malls and other places haven’t addressed the parking issues of the city. Haphazardly-parked vehicles protruding onto the roads are a common sight that in turn leads to traffic issues. The situation in residential areas isn’t any better either. A recent study stated that 90 per cent of Bengaluru households do not have parking space and are forced to park their vehicles on the road or on footpaths.
KNM Rao has had a firsthand experience of Bengaluru’s traffic. After he quit his role as Director of Middleware Platform Development at Huawei Technologies, he wanted to address the city’s traffic issues. And the answer was carpooling. He, however, was aware of the fact that despite many apps in India and across the globe facilitate ride-sharing, they could not make much impact in India and eventually died.
Undeterred by failures faced by others, Rao decided to develop an app for real-time ride sharing with end-to-end automation, starting from registration, finding and coordinating with a ride partner, transaction and rating. Thus, QuickRide came to be.
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Launched in September 2015 by Rao, Subhro B. Chakraborty and Shobhana BN, Quick Ride is a bike/carpooling ride platform that connects commuters travelling in the same direction in real-time and schedules the rides instantly for an immediate ride, or even in advance for upcoming rides. It provides real-time location and status of ride participants on live map.
“Our ultimate dictum was maximum usage of available resources and filling those empty seats on the road. We always considered cars with single occupants a sheer wastage of resources that gives rise to many unpardonable issues like traffic jams, cluttered parking spaces, pollution, and long hours on the road which impacts one’s health,” says Rao.
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Rapid increase in vehicles in Bengaluru has caused an enormous parking crunch. Multi-level car parking construction in major IT parks, malls and other places haven’t addressed the parking issues of the city. Haphazardly-parked vehicles protruding onto the roads are a common sight that in turn leads to traffic issues. The situation in residential areas isn’t any better either. A recent study stated that 90 per cent of Bengaluru households do not have parking space and are forced to park their vehicles on the road or on footpaths.
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Undeterred by failures faced by others, Rao decided to develop an app for real-time ride sharing with end-to-end automation, starting from registration, finding and coordinating with a ride partner, transaction and rating. Thus, QuickRide came to be.
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Launched in September 2015 by Rao, Subhro B. Chakraborty and Shobhana BN, Quick Ride is a bike/carpooling ride platform that connects commuters travelling in the same direction in real-time and schedules the rides instantly for an immediate ride, or even in advance for upcoming rides. It provides real-time location and status of ride participants on live map.
“Our ultimate dictum was maximum usage of available resources and filling those empty seats on the road. We always considered cars with single occupants a sheer wastage of resources that gives rise to many unpardonable issues like traffic jams, cluttered parking spaces, pollution, and long hours on the road which impacts one’s health,” says Rao.
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