New Delhi : After a successful launch of RailYatri SmartBus between Delhi and Lucknow, RailYatri, an inter-city transport network company, has announced that they are extending their exclusive SmartBuses to 9 additional cities. These cities include Kanpur, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Manali, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad. In doing so, the company reports that they have taken a significant step towards integrating bus network with the trains.

Operated as an asset less brand, RailYatri SmartBus has been conceptualised as a convenient alternative to train travel for the modern budget traveller whose priority is to reach to a destination hassle-free within shortest time, at an affordable price with comfort and convenience during the travel. RailYatri SmartBus is able to provide hassle-free and dependable service through it’s unique initiatives like on-time promise else 50% refund, CCTV and GPS for safe and smooth long-distance intercity travel experience and all this at always affordable fare. RailYatri’s data science team predicts that nearly 94% of buses which leaves on-time will reach their destination in time.

“Intercity bus journey has never been looked at from experience perspective hence we decided to always deliver on four promises: Hassle-free boarding, Timeliness, Safety and Professional Drivers. To deliver on these promises, we are the first to bring in on-boarding process set by specialists from the hospitality industry and implementation rigor is re-defining the bus travel experience. Majority of our buses are also equipped with washroom for non-stop long distance travel,” says Manish Rathi, CEO & Co-founder, RailYatri.

Much of the success of the SmartBuses can be attributed to technology and product innovations including the RailYatri App, mobile ticketing, free on-board Wi-Fi and entertainment, and real-time online streaming of live location and CCTV feed.

 “Our experience over the years in being associated with both rail and road travellers has given us an excellent understanding of the thousands of pockets in the country where demand-supply gap for intercity travel has increased over the years. The transitioning of the train travellers to the surface travel options have been characteristically very slow and could be attributed to lack of standardization and poor last-mile customer experience during road travel. We were able to successfully bridge this gap with RailYatri SmartBus launch run between Delhi and Lucknow,” says Kapil Raizada, Co-founder, RailYatri

Bookings for the SmartBuses can be done through RailYatri App or Web Site. RailYatri have also partnered with payment partners like PayPal to who are offering significant cashbacks on the purchase of SmartBus tickets.