A secure operating layer for India's e-bus GCC contracts.

Urban Glide is the independent operating partner for India's e-bus GCC contracts - combining purpose-built technology with the operational depth of India's largest premium bus network and three decades of public-transit institutional authority.

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6M+
Monthly rides served across the parent network, Cityflo, India's leading bus commute network.
1,200+
Buses operated daily by the parent network across Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai and Pune
30yrs
Public-transit institutional depth in the leadership team.
15%
Recoverable yield per kilometre in the typical GCC contract.
99.8%
Platform uptime · monitored 24×7 from the Operations Command Center.
Who we're built for

Operating depth, where it actually counts.

GCC e-bus contracts are complex, long-duration, and penalty-heavy. The gap between a project that performs and one that ends up bleeding ARR is operational depth.

Urban Glide is the operating partner for the contract assumed. We digitize and manage the depot operations platform, help contest penalties and protect the operating margin you bid against.

Infrastructure funds

Infrastructure Funds

GCC portfolios live or die on operational delivery. Urban Glide gives the contract owner real-time line of sight into depot performance and the operating discipline to protect IRR across the portfolio.

Bus OEMs

Bus OEMs

Urban Glide is the operating partner the contract assumed - we run the depot, manage the STU relationship, contest penalties, and protect the operating margin you bid against.

Principal Bidder

Principal Bidder

Urban Glide makes sure the depot performs according to contract mandates: running operations, managing the workforce and energy line, and owning the STU relationship so the margin bid is the margin kept.

The Urban Glide Platform

One platform. Five modules. Built around the depot.

Most Indian e-bus depots today run on paper duty registers, WhatsApp coordination, and disconnected spreadsheets. The cost shows up monthly in missed kilometres, contested penalties, and energy spend running 15–25% above the bid model. The Urban Glide Platform fixes that. Five modules, one data layer, working alongside our advisory team.

Module · 01

Scheduling & Rostering with live substitution.

Replace the physical duty register with a digital scheduling layer that maps drivers to vehicles to routes, updated in real time. Substitutions, leave, and overtime are handled in one system - eliminating the coordination overhead behind missed departures.

  • Real-time duty allocation across the depot
  • Substitution logic for unplanned absences
  • Audit trail on every shift, feeding KPI reporting
Scheduling & Rostering dashboard
Module · 02

A Driver App that turns every driver into a data source.

Pre-trip vehicle inspections, trip assignments, and on-road escalation digitised on a mobile interface drivers actually use. Compliance records are auditable. The personal earnings dashboard reduces absenteeism by ending the pay-dispute cycle that drives attrition across GCC projects.

  • Pre-trip inspection & STU compliance records
  • Trip briefings & live route guidance
  • Daily earnings transparency for drivers
Driver App
Module · 03

Energy & Charging Management that protects the bid-model assumption.

Each bus is allocated to a charger bay within the lowest available tariff window - automatically, every night. Per-bus state-of-charge is tracked through the cycle. Energy data flows into the reporting layer, supporting bid-model reconciliation.

  • Tariff-window optimised charging schedules
  • Per-bus SOC tracking and readiness assurance
  • kWh records for IRR & pricing reconciliation
Energy & Charging Management dashboard
Module · 04

Workforce Automation that eliminates month-end reconciliation.

Payroll computes automatically from scheduling attendance, on-road hours, overtime authorizations, and incentive triggers. Removes the 3-5 working days of manual reconciliation most depots face and the pay disputes that drive driver absenteeism.

  • System-generated payroll, no manual adjustment
  • Attendance reconciled with operational data
  • Full overtime audit trail for compliance
Workforce Automation dashboard
Module · 05

An Operations Command Center that makes every kilometre auditable.

The Operations Command Center aggregates data across all modules into a single dashboard mirroring the GCC contract's KPI structure. Kilometres operated, schedule adherence, fleet availability, and penalty events are tracked in real time and reconciled daily with principal-grade governance.

  • KPI dashboards mirroring the GCC contract
  • Penalty events surfaced with platform data
  • IRR-ready reporting for the principal
Operations Command Center dashboard
The depot, end-to-end

The Urban Glide Platform across every part of the depot.

A digital operations layer paired with embedded advisory. Every module is mapped to a workflow that determines kilometre delivery, penalty outcomes, or operating margin.

Urban Glide bus depot - annotated platform map
Tech Platform

A digital operations layer built for the e-bus depot.

Purpose-built for GCC contracts. Every module maps to the workflows that determine kilometre delivery and penalty outcomes.

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Shift rostering, driver-to-bus-to-route assignment, leave management, and substitution handling in one system. Replaces the physical ledger and the parallel WhatsApp thread.
Pre-trip checks, live trip assignment, on-road issue escalation, and a personal earnings dashboard. Every driver interaction creates a data trail that feeds penalty contestation and diagnostics.
Slot-allocates buses across chargers, shifts load into low-tariff windows, and tracks per-bus kWh. Converts into measurable power cost savings every night.
Automated payroll from posting-book attendance, on-road hours, overtime, and incentives. Removes the month-end reconciliation scramble and driver pay disputes as a source of absenteeism.
Data across shifts, charging, scheduled are all captured, reconciled, and benchmarked. This forms the foundation for STU penalty contestation and IRR consulting with the principal.
Consulting & Operating Support

Data-backed advisory to close the IRR gap.

Consultants embedded inside operations, working from the same live data the platform generates. Real interventions, tracked against real outcomes.

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STU penalties are often contestable - but only with the data to back the challenge. Urban Glide's reporting layer generates that data in real time, turning a reactive process into a systematic one.
Root-cause diagnostics on missed kilometres - whether driver gaps, vehicle availability, or charging failures. Each intervention is tracked and its impact is visible in the next reporting cycle.
Tariff-window scheduling backed by per-bus consumption data. Measurable savings on every charging cycle, with month-on-month benchmarking to track improvement.
Driver shortages are structural across GCC projects in India. Urban Glide provides a strategic hiring framework - compensation modelling, sourcing, and contingency planning - that treats the driver gap as a solvable operational problem.
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Our story

Built where operational excellence meets intelligent technology.

Public transit in India has operated as a state monopoly for most of its history. The private market is structurally short on operators who understand how a public depot works at scale and short on technology built specifically for that environment.

Urban Glide closes that gap. Cityflo's tech-native operating culture meets three decades of public-transit institutional knowledge, in a venture designed specifically for the GCC era.

Leadership

The only team that brings tech & transit in equal measure.

Most operators in this market come from one side or the other - either OEMs learning to operate, or transit consultants without a tech stack. Urban Glide brings both, in the people leading it.

Victor Nagaonkar

Victor Nagaonkar

Ex-OSD Head, BEST · 30 yrs

Helped shape the BEST framework for PPP and GCC contracts that the sector now operates within. Brings institutional authority and ground-level operational fluency that the private market cannot find elsewhere.

Jerin Venad

Jerin Venad

CEO & Co-Founder · Cityflo

Leads Urban Glide from within Cityflo, bringing the tech-first operational DNA of India's largest premium bus network to the public transit infrastructure challenge.

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The contract is signed. Now make it perform.

We work with infrastructure funds, OEMs, and city authorities who want their GCC contract to deliver what the bid model promised across operations, finances and enabling public service.

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