Raft

Vannakam Chennai!

We understand that knowing the best way to go around the city using public modes of transport is a Big Headache! All of us have spent endless minutes, waiting at the stops and railway stations, to get to office, home or to some other place. Traffic on the road only makes it more difficult.

While on the road, there is hardly any information on Bus or Local Train Services available out there. Many apps try to provide this information, but as you would have already seen, the timings and stops locations are all out dated. Having lived with this pain for a long-long time, we decided that something needed to be done about it!

What could be better than starting with our own cultural capital, Chennai!

After months of hard work and countless coffees, we are happy to present to you (Drumrolls please!):

*** Raft – The ultimate public transport app for commuters in India!***

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Introducing SmartRoute™
*You no longer need to juggle through multiple result cards to check for bus numbers.
*See multiple routes options available between 2 stops
*All route options available in same expanded result page
*Simply raft on any one of the routes shown, to get to your destination

Introducing ShareTrip™
*You can now share your complete journey details with your friends, family and loved ones
*In One-Click tell them the bus or local train you are traveling in, along with your expected time of arrival to the destination

Introducing EasyFilter™
*Quickly see results for the selected public transit modes or toggle between multiple modes to see the best travel options

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Feature List:

*Intuitively simple yet incredibly powerful app that provides you all the required public transit information in a jiffy

*At under 3MB, Raft is an extremely lightweight app and works on the simplest of phones

*Provides the best ways to travel from one location to another, within the city – Simplest Trip Planning App

*Covers all modes of public transportation options such as MTC, Local Trains, MRTS; lets you set your preferred mode

*Contains the most accurate and up to date public transit information – Trip Planner App

*Combines different bus and local train options along the same path and simplifies route choices

*Gives scheduled departures and arrivals for all modes of Public Transport

*Allows you to set your Favorite Places; and takes you there in a click

*Provides detailed directions from the start location to chosen end location – Map overlay on Google Maps

*Minimal data consumption – Use Raft effectively even with a slow 2G connection, On The Go!

*Simple and easy-to-use interface – Easiest app to use for Public Transport trips

In short, Raft contextually presents up-to-date transit information to commuters using public transport offering a rich user-experience.

*** RAFT APP KU ORU WHISTLE PODU!!! ***

With our promise to give users the most up-to-date public transit information, we have landed in Chennai and we will soon takeoff to other cities in India.

Without further ado, Let’s raft!

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In Chennai, Raft covers the following public modes of transportation:

*MTC – Metropolitan Transportation Corporation

– MTC White Board Ordinary Services

– Green Board Express Services

– MTC Small Bus Express Services

– MTC Air Conditioned Services

– Non-Stop and Point-to-Point (PP) Services

– Day Services and General Services

– Night Halt (NH) and Night Services (NS)

*Suburban Railway (EMU, MRTS Line and Local Train Lines)

– Beach – Velachery MRTS Line

– Beach – Tambaram Line

– Beach – Central Line

– Beach – Tiruttani Line

– Beach – Sullurupetta Line

– Tambaram – Chengalpattu Line

– Chengalpattu – Thirumalpur Line

– Central – Tiruttani Line

– Central – Sullurupetta Line

*** Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) – Raft will cover Metro Services, the day it is launched. (We are eagerly waiting too!) ***