11 Km In 2 Hours: Easemytrip Co-founder Commits Rs 1 Crore To Fix Bengaluru's Choke Points

After spending complete 100 minutes astatine a azygous postulation choke-point connected Bengaluru's Outer Ring Road (ORR), EaseMyTrip co-founder Prashant Pitti has pledged Rs 1 crore to place and thief hole Bengaluru's astir congested zones utilizing Google Maps information and AI tools.

"I was stuck astatine 1 choke-point astatine ORR, wherever I spent 100 mins struggling to understand why location is nary traffic-light aliases bull here!" Pitti wrote successful a station connected Monday. "But I don't want 1 much 'Bengaluru Traffic Meme aliases Rant'. I WANT TO FIX IT."

Sharing his late-night ordeal—a 2-hour 15-minute travel to screen conscionable 11 km—Pitti announced a public-facing inaugural to representation city-wide choke-points. He plans to usage outer imagery, Google's caller Road Management Insight information launched successful April 2025, and AI models to pinpoint gridlock locations and timings.

"Using Google Data and Satellite Imagery, we tin database down each nan choke-points & their nonstop timings successful a month. For nan postulation section to activity connected those areas specifically."

According to Pitti, nan ₹1 crore committedness will fund: One to 2 elder ML/AI engineers; fund for utilizing Google Maps API calls, outer imagery, GPUs and section pilots; and an open-source level that tin beryllium scaled to different Indian cities.

But he besides laid down 2 prerequisites earlier beginning: "I will commencement this project, erstwhile BTP/BBMP: 1. Open their earthy feeds aliases API access. 2. Names a team, committed to acting connected nan insights we generate."

Calling connected volunteers and Bangalore citizens, he wrote: "TAG anyone you cognize successful nan Bangalore Traffic Office, BBMP aliases nan Traffic Commissioner’s office… ML/AI folks: remark ‘IN’ if you tin activity on part-time to extremity this menace."

Bengaluru's gridlock crisis

Bengaluru's postulation business has triggered a dependable watercourse of online vexation from residents. With ongoing metro construction, roadworthy diversions, and unit connected constrictive arterial roads, regular commutes successful nan tech superior person grown unpredictable and exhausting.

A caller X station by a commuter said: "Bangalore sucks. Due to random (permanent) diversion, it took maine 1hr 50 min to scope nan agency erstwhile successful regular days it utilized to return 40 mins. Time to time off Bangalore. In 1 year, I'm moving to HYD for sure. The upwind successful HYD is basking only for 3 months, and past it's almost for illustration BLR."
 

Published on: Jul 14, 2025 7:19 PM IST