India’s integrated bus ticket portal www.busindia.com launch

Largest portal in the world connecting transport services across states in India

To make long distance travel by buses convenient and seamless, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways along with a private player Radiant Info has Launch / reveal / introduce an integrated portal www.busindia.com for travelers across India. This facility brings together bus transport operators across the country under a single window, thus facilitating users to plan their bus travel across Indian cities with ease.

Being the only portal for interstate connectivity, BusIndia.com also enables users to do trip booking and hotel booking, providing a full itinerary experience for the first time in Indian bus booking.

Within Karnataka itself, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC), Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), North-West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) and North-East Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NEKRTC) and with total over 18,000 buses fleet are part of this national integrated bus ticket portal.

“In India road transport corporations (RTC) are fragmented. They are owned by various state governments and the central government provides funds, technology and infrastructure. In Busindia.com we first launched individual state sites. Then we felt the need to found an integrated service for seamless booking across various states,” told Venu Myneni, Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Radiant Info.

In the first phase the portal has an inventory of 360,000 seats with a network of 1,47,000 buses available through the state transport corporations of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Odisha, Meghalaya and Gujarat. The second phase, which is expected to be launched next week, would see the inclusion of Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Goa.

Talking about the newly launched solution, Ananda Rao, Director, Central Institute for Road Transport (CIRT) said, “We are pleased to have partnered with Radiant Info on developing BusIndia.com. This is truly a first-of-its-kind gateway for bus booking and makes it the largest portal in the world in its category. We plan to integrate this with the IRCTC (Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation) portal and taxi booking in future to provide an integrated travel experience in India.”

The facility is developed and maintained by Bangalore-based Radiant Info in partnership with Central Institute for Road Transport (CIRT). The project entailed investment of around Rs.200 crore and will be run on a build-operate-own basis.

All the vehicles and services on BusIndia.com are function as per pre-defined schedule route and timings with definite trips. This facilitate and assists the passengers in better planning and management of their itineraries. BusIndia.com bus services have reliability and comfort of being run by professionally run transport corporations.