Case Study
Outstation Taxi Platform
Outstation Taxi Platform helps travellers book intercity one way and round trip journeys with upfront pricing, verified drivers, and clear trip tracking.
- 5 MonthsDelivery Timeline
- 7 SpecialistsProject Team
- 12 ModulesConnected Interfaces
Project Overview
The Outstation Taxi Platform was built for an intercity travel operator offering one way, round trip, and multi day cab journeys between cities. Travellers can search routes, choose journey types, select vehicle categories, review upfront pricing that includes distance, driver allowance, and toll estimates, schedule pickups, pay advance amounts, and track their assigned cab. Drivers can review available intercity trip offers, accept assignments, follow route guidance, record start and end readings, and complete trip settlements. Operations teams can manage routes, pricing rules, vehicle categories, driver verification, bookings, cancellations, advances, and settlement records. Abhineh Infotech handled product planning, UI UX design, mobile application development, backend services, pricing logic, payment integration, testing, and deployment.
Project Idea
The platform needed to connect travellers, drivers, routes, and operations teams while keeping intercity pricing, scheduling, and settlement journeys transparent and dependable.
Outstation travel differs from city rides because journeys are longer, planned in advance, and priced from distance slabs, driver allowances, night charges, toll estimates, and return trip rules. Managing these calculations through phone calls and manual quotations creates inconsistent pricing and disputes at trip completion. The platform needed one consistent structure that kept every stage connected and easy to follow.
Abhineh Infotech connected route search, journey type selection, upfront fare calculation, advance payment, driver assignment, trip tracking, and settlement workflows through a unified architecture. Shared backend services allowed booking and pricing information to move consistently between interfaces, helping drivers accept suitable intercity trips while travellers and operations teams saw the same fare breakdown.
The product principle focused on transparency, planning, and trust. Travellers needed pricing they could understand before paying, drivers needed clear trip terms and settlement details, and operations teams needed control over routes and rate rules. The interface structure kept important actions visible while reducing unnecessary steps across the complete intercity journey.
Challenges
The platform supported travellers, drivers, verification staff, and operations teams, each with different responsibilities and permissions. Travellers required simple advance booking, drivers needed clear trip offers and settlement records, verification staff needed document review tools, and operations teams required broader visibility across routes and bookings.
Data varied across traveller profiles, city pairs, route distances, journey types, vehicle categories, distance slabs, driver allowances, night and toll charges, scheduled pickups, driver documents, odometer readings, advances, cancellations, and settlements. The platform needed structured data management to keep pricing and trip information accurate and consistent across many routes.
Intercity booking demand rises sharply around festivals, long weekends, holiday seasons, and wedding periods, while trips remain active for many hours or several days. The platform required efficient APIs, reliable push notifications, caching, scalable services, and dependable cloud infrastructure to maintain responsive search, pricing, assignment, tracking, and settlement workflows during higher activity.
Project Milestones We Achieved
| Milestone | Tasks | Timeline | Responsible |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery and Planning | Mapped traveller, driver, verification, and operations journeys, defined route coverage, pricing slabs, journey types, integrations, and technical architecture. | Month 1 | Product and Engineering Team |
| UI/UX Design | Designed route search, journey type selection, fare breakdown, scheduling, booking management, driver trip offers, and operations interfaces. | Month 2 | UI UX Design Team |
| Core Development | Built authentication, traveller and driver profiles, route and pricing engine, booking services, assignment logic, trip tracking, settlement records, APIs, and management tools. | Month 2 to 4 | Application Development Team |
| Integrations and Testing | Connected payment, notification, and location services, validated pricing and settlement flows, tested APIs, and performed functional and performance testing. | Month 4 to 5 | Integration and QA Team |
| Launch and Optimization | Prepared production infrastructure, completed final validation, monitored live booking activity, resolved issues, and refined pricing and assignment journeys. | Month 5 | Engineering and Delivery Team |
Project Features
The platform combines intercity route search, upfront pricing, advance booking, driver assignment, trip tracking, and settlement controls to support the complete outstation travel lifecycle.
Traveller Signup and Verification
Travellers can register with mobile verification, manage profiles, store frequent routes and passenger details, and access complete booking history.
Route Search and Journey Types
Travellers can search city pairs, choose one way, round trip, or multi day journeys, and compare vehicle categories by seating and luggage capacity.
Upfront Fare Breakdown
Pricing shows distance slabs, included kilometres, extra distance rates, driver allowance, night charges, and toll estimates before the booking is confirmed.
Scheduled Pickup and Trip Tracking
Travellers can schedule pickup date and time, receive assigned driver and vehicle details, and follow trip progress across long intercity routes.
Driver Trip Offers and Settlement
Drivers can review intercity trip offers with route and payout details, accept assignments, record readings, and view advance and settlement summaries.
Operations Dashboard
Operations teams gain central visibility into routes, pricing rules, driver verification, bookings, cancellations, advances, settlements, and trip performance.
Results
The Outstation Taxi Platform launched with connected traveller, driver, verification, payment, and operations workflows. Travellers could search intercity routes, review upfront pricing, schedule pickups, and track journeys, while drivers and operations teams managed assignments and settlements through dedicated interfaces.
Centralised management tools gave operations teams clearer visibility into route coverage, pricing rules, driver documents, upcoming trips, cancellations, advances, and settlement records. Verification staff also gained structured document review controls, helping organise routine onboarding across a growing driver network.
Travellers gained a more organised planning journey from route search through trip completion. Clear journey type options, itemised fare breakdowns, scheduling steps, driver details, and trip updates helped users understand each stage without relying on phone quotations and manual confirmations.
The platform created a flexible foundation for continued intercity travel development. Its architecture can support additional routes, vehicle categories, package tour options, seasonal pricing models, driver payout structures, and operational tools as the service expands.
Development Process
Explore
- Journey Mapping
- Route And Pricing Research
- Requirement Analysis
- Wireframe Creation
- UI UX Design
- Flow Validation
Implement
- Mobile Development
- Backend Development
- API Development
- Payment Services
- Notification Services
- Location Services
Execute
- Functional Testing
- Performance Testing
- Security Review
- Production Setup
- Release Monitoring
- Journey Optimization
Typography & colors
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Primary
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Secondary
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Tertiary Color
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Icons Color
#64748B
Text Color
#0F172A
Background Color
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App Visuals
CityHop
City to city, one price
Delhi to Jaipur
Choose your cab
Fare breakdown
Trip pricing
Live
Cab on the way
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Track cabAlerts
Trip updates
Almost there
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Tech Stack
Kotlin supported native Android experiences across traveller and driver applications. Spring Boot powered backend services and APIs for accounts, routes, pricing, bookings, assignments, and settlements. MySQL handled structured transactional data across routes and fare rules, while Firebase supported push notifications, messaging, and real time trip updates. Microsoft Azure provided cloud infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, and scalable application hosting.
- Kotlin
- Spring Boot
- MySQL
- Firebase
- Microsoft Azure
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