Google Maps, ONDC, Namma Yatri tie up to provide seamless mobility experience

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Google Maps, Namma Yatri, and Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) will help users get an end-to-end seamless experience in open mobility, senior executives from the three organisations told ET in a joint interaction.

ONDC—the government-backed open network for online commerce—is, for example, working with Namma Yatri and Google Maps to onboard mobility options such as local trains, autorickshaws, cabs, and metro.

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ONDC may include long-distance trains and flights in time to come, its managing director and chief executive officer T Koshy said.

“The vision is to create an integrated cart. Any product or service which is catalogueable should be there on the network. One of the areas is mobility,” Koshy told ET.

Miriam Karthika Daniel, vice president of Google Maps Experiences, said, “In India, there are so many different variations in how you can do your commute from one place to another that it has not been easy for us to tie the entire end-to-end journey together. That is where ONDC came in as it is digitising or at least attempting to digitise all different service providers and bring them online.”

The company has tied up with open network mobility app Namma Yatri to bring the schedule, booking and all other related services of Kochi Metro for Google Maps users, Daniel said.

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Its long-term vision would be very similar to ONDC’s wish list of end-to-end