A long journey by train can be a gruelling experience, especially when you don’t have a confirmed ticket and have to spend the night dozing off at the edge of a reluctant co-passenger’s berth or goading the TT to get you a seat. But you need not necessarily travel this way. Ticket Jugaad will make your journey easy.
Launched in January by two brothers — Shubham Baldava and Runal Jaju — the app is built with intelligent algorithms that find empty seats on a train at various points and combine them to let you enjoy a journey by swapping seats. Shubham says the idea is inspired by his travel from his hometown Aurangabad to Tatanagar. “I would often not get a direct ticket,” says the 21-year-old. But he soon noticed that several stretches remain empty between the source and destination. “I realized that if combined, a few such empty stretches in a train could help me cover a part of the journey. And I can cover the rest in another train or mode of transport,” he says.
The app works somewhat the same way. A user can just enter the desired train number and the app will immediately display information on confirmed tickets available on the route. “This way a passenger can at least spend the night in a confirmed seat and the day on a waiting ticket. The only thing one might have to bear with is repeatedly changing seats,” says Shubham. While the app currently gives information on tickets in a single train, the duo plan to conjure up travel routes using more than one train. With a userbase of 1.35 lakh, the duo is currently working on improving the processing time.
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