Monday, 28 September 2015

RailYatri App: An effective way to share your trip

Technology is advancing and so as the travel pattern of the Indian train travellers. Gone are the days when passengers had to stand in the queue for long at the railway station to know about their PNR status and if in case the train is delayed, acquiring information about the live train status was a pain in the neck.

With the advent of smart phones and smart apps, travellers never have to worry about their train related query. There has been numerous train travel app but what make RailYatri different amongst the crowd are its updated and unique features which are effective in making an informed decision. It is a complete source for your entire travel related query.  

 The app allows you to add trip through phone. Adding your trip gives you information about your travel in a more customized and sorted manner. It also calculates the expected and arrival time or delay (if any) and the distance left to the destination.

The trip sharing feature of RailYatri is an added benefit if you are travelling alone. It shows you how your journey is progressing in the real time. With the GPS in your phone, the app fetches the data of your train position and shows you the live train status of the train you are in and creates a unique URL which you can share through Whatsapp or Gmail amongst your family and friends.

Once a trip is shared on the app, sorted and appropriately linked details are shown along with your trip. It shows you the PNR status on the phone and shows the coach/seat position along with the expected platform number. The app also advises the user which side of the station to approach if you are travelling to a destination.

RailYatri is an umbrella app where you can enjoy series of useful feature which are user friendly and will give a unique user experience. If you do not have RailYatri app in your phone, don’t be disheartened and download it from the Playstore. You can use the sharing link and browse through our website: www.railyatri.in and keep a track on your family and friends.

So next time, you plan a trip don’t forget to share your trip on the app. 

Thursday, 24 September 2015

How to Plan for Travel to Popular Destinations from Your City?

Let’s start this article with the simple assumption that you have so far learnt about the most popular destinations by word of mouth conversations. Let us also hold that there were data based proof of the validity of such assumptions. This is where the train travellers have to make big compromises on their travel. There are simple ways to make information such as popular destinations from a particular station (based on booking statistics) available to the general populace. Yet, Indian Railways likes to keep them as their own little secret. This is why there are so many speculations. Who would have thought that the most popular destination from the Pink City of Jaipur would be Mumbai! Had you ever guessed that? Truth is far from speculation. This is the exact void RailYatri, a smart travel app, is trying to fill up by pulling up interesting data and making sense from them. You can easily view the most popular destinations from your city by visiting RailYatri.in website. But how does this help when you are looking for trains between two stations or Indian railways time table for such popular destinations? 
Well, it is the first step to planning a great trip. When you gather information about the most popular destinations visited by your fellow citizens, you immediately know that merely viewing the schedule of trains between two stations or Indian train time table is not ideal for you, you have to jump into action and book the tickets at the earliest instance. You have to use the 120 days advance booking bracket, to make sure there are plenty of train options and confirmed tickets are available in most of the quality trains. The relation between the most popular destinations from your city and the ticket availability is quite linear. When a city is most visited from your station, tickets to the best trains will be exhausted fairly quickly and if you wait, you would be left licking the wounds. This is why the Most Frequently Visited Cities is such an important ingredient in any trip planning. 
Of course if you are late in booking the tickets, there are still options available. Suppose all the confirmed tickets are exhausted, you can still make a trip with confirmed ticket! How can you do that? Well, just download the RailYatri app by visiting the link: rytr.in/and or giving a missed call on: 8080809551. Once downloaded, open the app and check the Seat Availability in the best performing trains between two stations. The app will not only give you the present booking status (in terms of the Waiting list numbers) but also show a Confirmation Probability. The Confirmation Probability is shown as High, Medium and Low. You can go forward and book tickets if the Confirmation Probability is high. Even tickets with more than 300 waiting list queue are confirmed at the point of travel, and RailYatri analyzes this trend to come up with the proper prediction. 
If you have already booked tickets and they are on waiting list, use the PNR status check feature to keep a track of the PNR status progress. When you enter the PNR number, the app tells you the exact status as also gives you a prediction on the Confirmation Probability. Again, the High and Medium ratings are good enough to stay calm. 
RailYatri should not be mingled in the same class with other live train status apps, for such apps only provide basic information. RailYatri on the other hand helps in key decision making. This is why, when you think of travelling, have the RailYatri app as your aide.

Friday, 18 September 2015

RailYatri app: Your travel guide before and during rail journeys

With RailYatri on your smart phones, it’s easy to track your live train status

Train has always been a primary travel option for most of us. Whether travelling in AC coaches or in General coupes, train travellers check for all the information including the train time table, train between stations, PNR status or live train status,  right from the time of their bookings till they reach their final destination.
The world is busy and people are busier now, and all this information is required in seconds and that too in their palms. Today smart phones have revolutionised the way we access information for our daily commutation and travel apps are growing significantly as a resourceful tool for train travellers. The need of information is not limited to checking for train options for your destination or checking your PNR status, but information is required all through your journey acting as a guiding star. While all train travel apps end up providing basic information about the Indian railways time table, live train status or the PNR status enquiries, what beats all of them is the Live train status feature of the RailYatri app.  Being a dedicated train travel website and app, it entails a wide collection of intelligence-based data to track your current location and updates you.

RailYatri, with its interactive set of features never lets you feel alone in the train journey. The app uses your GPS information to tell the exact location of the train along the route. While most of the apps show the live train status based on the last Railways updates, RailYatri gives the minute perfect location using the real time GPS locator. This helps you learn about the train’s delay and plan your trip ahead likewise. You can also learn about the distance covered and the distance remaining, as also the expected arrival time to your destination station. What adds more to its utility is its “Trip Sharing” feature which enables sharing your real-time location with your family and friends.

The experiences of train journeys are one of its kinds and we shall all not want your travel woes ever overpower your enthusiasm and excitement of train travelling. RailYatri always aims to help its travellers in making informed travel decisions right by providing confirmation prediction for respective PNR status, food bookings to knowing the live train status, only to simplify and let you enjoy travels much better. So, on your train journeys let your worries sway away and travel easily with RailYatri as your friend and travel guide.

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Top 10 Best performing trains to Bhubaneswar

Odisha is the state of beautiful rock-cut temples and sunbathed beaches. But you can explore these once you get down from the train. One of the mesmerizing attractions of a tour to Bhubaneswar is the Chilika Lake, known for its Dolphins and dwelling place of migratory birds.

If you are planning a trip to this beautiful city filled with surprises then you will definitely like to know more about the trains along this route. But the problem with trains is that they seldom run as per the Indian railways time table. They are accused of always running late and causing clutter in the smooth journey of the passengers. Such discrepancies may be caused by the huge railway traffic that is caused by large number of trains coming from different routes to the same direction and generally are running on the same tracks.
Every year several trains are announced in the Railway Budget but no heed is paid in adding new tracks to support this additional train traffic which leads to congestion and thus delays in train time table, hampering the travel experience of the Indian train travellers.

Amidst, the tendency of delays there are still few trains which manage to maintain their exact run time. As these are punctual trains so confirmed tickets in these trains are prized objects.  PNR status of waitlisted tickets in these trains does not see much improvement. So, planning in advance is the order of times if you are to travel with comfort in the punctual trains.

Thus, for the ease of your planning here are the fastest trains based on our analysis of live train status over the past month, to the city of temples “Bhubaneswar”.

10 trains with fastest run time to Bhubaneswar
1.     
12282: New-Delhi-Bhubaneswar Duronto Express.
2.     22856: Tirupati Superfast Express.
3.     12993: Mumbai LLT- Allahabad Duronto Express.
4.     15905: Dibrugarh Vivek Express.
5.     12253: Anga Super Fast Express.
6.     12513:  Secunderabad-Guwahati Express
7.     16348: Trivandrum Express
8.     18048: Vasco-Da-Gama Howrah Amravati Express
9.     22812: New Delhi- Bhubaneswar Rajdhani (via Adra)
10.  12993: Gadhidham Puri Superfast Express

10 Trains with least delays to Bhubaneswar

1.     11019: Mumbai CST – Bhubaneswar Konark Express
2.     18495 : Rameswaram- Bhubaneswar Weekly Express
3.     22812: New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express (via Adra)
4.     12820: New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Orissa Sampark Kranti Express
5.     17016: Secunderabad- Bhubaneswar Visakha Express
6.     22881: Pune-Bhubaneswar Express
7.     12846: Yeshwantpur-Bhubaneswar superfast Express
8.     18448: Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Hirakud Express
9.     22806: New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Weekly Superfast Express
10.   12897: Puducherry-Bhubaneswar Superfast Express
10 slowest trains to Bhubaneswar
1.     18478: Kalinga Utkal Superfast Express
2.     15901: Bengaluru City- Dibrugarh Weekly Express
3.     11019: Konark Express
4.     18406: Ahmedabad-Puri Express
5.     22641: Howrah Premium Express
6.     18646: Hyderabad Deccan-Howrah East Coast Express
7.     18474: Jodhpur-Puri Express
8.     18412: Vishakapatnam-Bhubaneswar Intercity Express
9.     12802: New Delhi-Puri Purushottam Express
10.  22806: New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Superfast Express

Train travel is more than a necessity for most of us, and is enjoyable only when commuters have to face less discomfort during their travel. In that case, it is important to make a smart travel decision and keep an eye on the train running status, PNR status and Indian train time table to avoid hassles related to train travel.