Featured: Top 10 Ridesharing Apps For Android

Source: http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/12/featured-top-10-ridesharing-apps-for-android.html

Ridesharing apps are becoming more and more popular thanks to services like Uber and Lyft, but those are not the only apps out there that offer a rideshare option for anyone looking to hitch a ride somewhere. There are actually quite a few apps out there that offer some form of a ride share service, whether you’re wanting to catch a ride or pick up a car to drive around for a few hours. if you live in a larger city ridesharing apps can be a great alternative to owning your own car, or a nice addition for those times you just don’t want to drive yourself. They can also be great for nights out on the town or trips to the airport. If you’re looking for options, here’s some picks we found that are available in the Play Store now.

ShareACar is one that is likely head of a lot less than some of the others on this list, nevertheless, it still offers an option to share rides, catch rides, or share taxis. It’s only available in India, and doesn’t appear to be fairly widespread in terms of a user base, but if you’re someone who is in the region and needs this kind of a service this might be just what you’re looking for

Founded By IITians, ShareACar Is Adding Practicality To Carpooling As We Know It

Source: http://www.indianweb2.com/2015/10/27/shareacar



Nowadays, roads are more a sight of stagnant cars stuck in long traffics than moving cars. In fact, various state governments have also started various initiatives to curb the increasing figure of cars on roads and put a lid on the pollution problem. Car Free Day is one such initiative started by the Haryana government in Gurgaon and more recently in Delhi. The concept borrowed from the west, encourages the citizens to ditch their vehicles once a week and share a ride to office or use the public transport.

In 2009, carpooling represented 43.5% of all trips in the United States and 10% of commute trips. In India however, carpooling is still a relatively new concept which hasn’t it picked up traction in the Indian Market yet. The Indian market is exactly at an infant stage in terms of the ride sharing or carpooling market.

Even though, India do have handful of homegrown ride-sharing or carpooling startups/apps such asZify, sRide, Ridingo, among others, are providing its users decent platform which can be used for sharing rides.

Now, a relatively new carpooling app – ShareACar, claims to be adding practicality to carpooling as we know it.

ShareACar is a realtime ride-sharing app that helps connecting real verified users to share their rides together and helps them save fuel and environment in the process. The users can do the sharing in their own vehicles or book a cab for the same.

ShareAcar’s co-founders – Rohit Karan and Shobhit Srivastava, both alumnus of IIT Kanpur, came up with the idea for ShareACar after realising the traffic epidemic that the Indian cities are suffering from. They realised that even though everyone wanted the problem to be solved but yet no one did anything concrete about the same. They also realised that even though most of the people were in favour of the idea of carpooling but yet they didn’t consider it as a safe and practical option.

Mumbai-based ShareACar aims to solve this lifelong taboo associated with carpooling and ease commuting problems in Indian cities.

Shobhit Srivastava and Rohit Karan

There are many other carpooling players currently existing in the market, but no one has been able to make carpooling as practical an option as they have. They distinguish themselves from others in the market by offering the users a solution where people are empowered with no fixed fares (upto a certain cap), no route matching algorithm and complete flexibility to decide who they want to travel with. Further, every cash transaction is done through an online wallet, hence providing the people with an option to travel cashless.

The app has an attractive and super easy to use map based UI on which users can put in their coordinates. Further, the app is completely real time in order to ensure no unnecessary pre planning.

The startup which is self funded till now, has seen some 250 odd users registering over the last few weeks since its launch. Further, around 45 rides have already been shared on the app over the last 3 weeks.

The Mumbai based app plans to increase its presence in other cities in the coming future and is tying up with various agencies for the same.

Tired of public transport hassles? Here's an app which can help you hitch a ride to your workplace at reasonable rates

Source: http://www.iamin.in/en/mumbai-north-west/news/tired-public-transport-hassles-heres-app-which-can-help-you-hitch-ride-your-workplace-reasonable-73657



L-R: Shobhit Srivastava and Rohit Karan started ShareACar app where citizens can carpool for daily commuting. Anagha Sawan/iamin




With the petrol prices and the number of unique start-ups, on the rise in tandem, ex-IITans Rohit Karan,31, and Shobhit Srivastava,32, have launched an application, which enables you to share a car and cut individual costs. The app itself is named ShareACar, which provides carpooling service to commuters.

Launched on September, 23, this year Shobhit Srivastava said, “The motive behind launching the app was to cut down the time and daily expenses of commuters and to reduce traffic issues in the city. The idea came about from our own experiences of facing daily traffic problems and thereby came up with the concept of ShareACar.”

How does it work?

The app has basically two users – riders (or the drivers) and passengers. Both the passengers as well as riders have to register themselves with the app first and share details like name, age, gender and verify the same through SMS or e-mail. The commuters will have to recharge their R-wallet (an online facility) with a minimum amount of Rs 100 before requesting for the carpool option.


A rider can charge the passenger a maximum of Rs 7 per kilometre for the trip, which will help him or her cover his car maintenance and other car expenses. Once the passenger gets down from the car, the total amount will be deducted from the commuter’s account and credited to the driver’s account.

What’s more? Both the riders and commuters will get the profiles of each other and they have the option of accepting or rejecting each other.

The challenges

To develop the app, both Rohit and Shobhit quit their jobs. Rohit said, “We wanted to focus on the app development because of which we both quit our jobs. We took lots of effort to develop the layout, conduct survey and interact with the daily commuters about the carpooling concept and what would the commuters like to see etc. We wanted to give the commuters different option to travel other than public transport.”

Within a month, the app has been used by around 200 passengers and 35 riders. The routes which are preferred for carpooling include Eastern Freeway, JVLR, Aarey Colony. The app is available only on the android platform as of now and can be downloaded from Google Play Store.