Juggling between the choices of high priced & less available online transportation services and time-consuming & strenuous public transits, both subjected to the question of safety, people are miles away from experiencing hassle-free & pocket-friendly rides. Caught in the clutches of confronting several apps for checking the availability of different modes of transport, finalizing a ride at your price through a bidding process ensuring a safe & secure ride is not a cakewalk but turning this into a possibility is Angamaly-based Vehicle ST (VST), which offers the luxury of a complete mobility solution that can be chosen with a single mobile App. The brainchild of Alvin George (Founder & CEO), VST is a smart traveling solution that acts as medium connecting customers with vehicle owners through its unique mobile application following their motto of ensuring safe and cashless travel.

Smart Solution for Stress free Rides
With a unique user friendly app, the company offers hyper local real time bidding for various vehicles like cabs, auto, tourist

bus, trucks, and special purpose vehicles like cranes,harvester and so forth. As the bidding is directly from the service providers based on users’ customized requirement, the services are tailored precisely. “We not only ensure that customers obtain the best fare and multiple offers at a time to overcome the surge pricing but also ascertain that the brand value of each service provider is secured and the reviews from the customers are clearly updated to them,” proclaims Alvin.

With a unique user friendly app, Vehicle ST offers hyper local real-time bidding for various vehicles like cabs, auto, tourist bus, trucks, and special purpose vehicles like cranes, harvester and so forth

A striking feature of VST is its perfectly built Bidding Architecture that showcases the real-time best offers from different brands in less than 60 seconds. Once the customer post his/her travel need through the VST app, the company forwards this requirement directly to available service providers based on the proximity of the user and the category of vehicles post which the response is taken in less than 30 seconds and posted to the user in 60 seconds. At last, the confirmation from the user is collected and passed on to the service provider, there by assuring the ride. In case of any

failure from the service providers, VST allocates other near by providers to ensure quality service. Further, the services are reviewed on daily basis by the customer care team and customers’ social responses are monitored to improve the quality. Unsurprisingly, this quality-consciousness has bestowed the company with awards such as 'Best Startup of KSIDC - 2016' by Govt of Kerala and ‘Young Entrepreneurs Award’ by PMA Palghat.

Leveraging Cutting-Edge Technologies
VST Smart vehicle solutions are a bundle of complete software & hardware products for mobility segment. “We use customized analytical tools based on the customer usage pattern to overcome the delay in response as well as matching the perception of the customers about the service providers,” explains Alvin. It further ensures that the service provider & customer usage pattern are mapped using preference analytics based on the trip histories, while service providers’ responses are monitored by VST’s operation team. To enable cashless rides, VST uses a smart ticketing & payment kiosk and accepts all modes of payments like wallet, debit/credit card, SBI buddy, SBI PAY, and BHIM. Expanding its services, the company recently started its operations in Muscat, Doha, Coimbatore and Bangalore. All set to hit revenue of $20 million by March 2018, VST intends to expand its offerings to other countries by establishing partnerships.