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Improved Ticketing sustained threat of Covid gradually
System waned, the model was restructured
Apart from digitising the as a sustainable and scalable system
administrative and functional areas, with a robust database and backend
Unified Ticketing APSRTC bestowed undivided attention in the cloud. The new solution is called
Sytsem coupled to evolving digital platforms for ‘Unified Ticketing Solution’.
with an android delivering citizen services advance bus Existing System before UTS
ticketing, bus passes, courier & parcel
based e-POS booking, vehicle tracking & passenger Earlier, APSRTC was delivering
as the mobile information system, call centre etc., various services in silos
terminal, changed duly integrating cashless payments. • Online advance ticket booking /
the paradigm Covid -19 was a watershed moment cancellation, Pre/Postponement.
by providing a in the digitisation history of APSRTC • Live Tracking of reserved Services
where we conceived the single solution
single interface - for all citizen services and implemented • Online Bus pass system

Opening up vast the same as a complete contactless • APSRTC Logistics (Courier and
parcel services)
opportunities to model christened as ‘pratham’
meaning ‘the first’, APSRTC has the
achieve a cashless tagline ‘Pragathi Ratham’ which means • Issue of tickets by the conductor /
driver inside the bus through the
system especially ‘Wheels of Progress’. As the fears of offline Ticket Issue Machines (TIM)
by leveraging the
UPI and wallet
models which are
the more popular
media accepted by
the common man.

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