RailYatri's crowd sourcing tech to make travel hassle free

Railways information site RailYatri has launched its crowd sourcing technology aimed at making rail travel safe and efficient.

     

RailWisdom is a unique platform that collects the experiences of train travellers and collates it according to trains and stations to help people get accurate information about their routes and destinations.

     

"Perhaps, there is no other medium of transport that brings forth the diversities of this vast nation as trains and with 22 million travellers everyday, it is one of the largest public transports in the world," Stelling Technologies CEO and Co-founder Manish Rathi told PTI.

     

Through RailWisdom, the company is trying to bring all information related to trains and stations under one roof in order to ensure that passengers can get accurate do's and dont's about their travel destinations and the trains they are boarding, he added.

 

Noida-based Stelling Technologies also operates the Indian Railways train enquiry portal, trainenquiry.Com. While the site was operational for the past few years, the firm has revamped the site and made it more user friendly.

 

"Our efforts to maintain trainenquiry.Com gave us the idea that we can also come out with a service which can collect the experiences of travellers and make it available to the public at large," Stelling Technologies Co-founder and Advisor Sachin Saxena said.

 

"So far, we have put information about 1,400 stations and 400-500 trains on RailWisdom. We are expanding it. Meanwhile, our Facebook page has got about 1.41 lakh followers and we will launch RailWisdom for mobile-based platform by next month," Rathi said.

 

Indian Railways, which has around 8,000 stations, carries about 22 million passengers daily covering over a lakh kilometers.