Four seats, one person
Most cars on the way to campus carry only their driver. That uses roughly four times the road space, fuel and parking the journey really needs.
Closed-community commute carpooling
Your colleague is already driving your route.
Every account belongs to a verified organisation and campus. Employees sign up in the Chaloo app with their work email, so there are no strangers.
An initiative of
Cyberabad Police Commissionerate
Society for Cyberabad Security Council
Match found
6.2 km · approx. 21 min
HITEC City, Hyderabad
Financial District, Hyderabad
Verified colleague
1 seat
₹70
your fare
Typical app cab
₹101
You save
₹31
6.2 km × ₹4 = ₹25 → ₹70 minimum applies
Madhapur → GachibowliKukatpally → HITEC CityKondapur → Financial DistrictMiyapur → Mindspace, RaidurgAmeerpet → MadhapurManikonda → NanakramgudaBegumpet → GachibowliHafeezpet → KondapurMadhapur → GachibowliKukatpally → HITEC CityKondapur → Financial DistrictMiyapur → Mindspace, RaidurgAmeerpet → MadhapurManikonda → NanakramgudaBegumpet → GachibowliHafeezpet → Kondapur
Work email only · Verified colleagues, no strangers
Fare by formula · Nobody types an amount in
Paid to the driver · No wallet, no platform cut
The everyday commute
Every morning, the same road. Thousands of empty seats.
Picture the drive to work: colleagues heading to the same gate within the same ninety minutes, most of them alone, many on the very same roads. Nobody planned it this way. It is simply what happens when everyone travels separately.
8:45 am · On the way to campusOne gate. Ninety minutes. Thousands of cars already sharing a road.
Same road, minutes apart
A colleague two streets away is heading to the same gate at the same time. The route is already shared; the car simply is not.
Everyone decides alone
Each extra car adds minutes to everyone's journey, yet nobody can coordinate with the others. Chaloo makes that coordination effortless.
What if those empty seats went to the colleagues already on your road? That is the idea behind Chaloo.
Why Chaloo
A better way to commute, with your colleagues.
Chaloo connects you with verified colleagues from your own organisation who already travel your route. Commuting together costs less than a cab, offers greater peace of mind than travelling with strangers and reduces congestion at the campus gate.
Built for many organisations
One platform serves many organisations, each with its own private network. Matching always stays within your organisation, a rule enforced by the system itself rather than by the app alone.
Matched within minutes
No need to book the day before. Plans made the previous evening often change, so Chaloo finds you a colleague in the minutes before you leave.
Transparent, formula-based fares
₹4 per kilometre, per seat, subject to a minimum fare and calculated from your actual pickup and drop-off points. Nobody sets prices by hand.
Safety built in from the start
Dedicated safety features protect every rider, from the moment you are matched until you reach your destination.
Plan your commute
Drag the car to your office.
15 km
How many seats?
Tap a seat. Travelling with a friend? Take two.
Your shared commute
Share the ride. Share the road.
- shared trips a month
- 44
- CO₂ avoided a month*
- 152 kg
- kept in a month
- ₹4,840
*Estimate: each shared journey replaces a solo car trip, at 0.23 kg of CO₂ per kilometre.
Chaloo
RIDE RECEIPT
- Distance
- 15 km
- Rate
- ₹4 / km / seat
- Seats
- × 1
- Distance charge
- ₹60
- Minimum fare
- ₹70
You pay
₹70
Typical app cab₹180
You save on this trip₹110
15 km × ₹4 = ₹60 → ₹70 minimum applies
Minimum fareSaved in a working month
₹4,840
That is ₹58,080 over twelve such months.
Based on 15 km each way, twice a day, for 22 working days a month (44 trips). App-cab estimate: base fare for the first 5 km, then a per-kilometre rate, before surge or waiting charges.
Compare
How Chaloo compares, trip by trip
One seat, one way, at the platform’s default rates.
| Distance | App cab (estimate) | Chaloo | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 km | ₹90 | ₹40 | ₹50 |
| 10 km | ₹135 | ₹70 | ₹65 |
| 20 km | ₹225 | ₹80 | ₹145 |
| 30 km | ₹315 | ₹120 | ₹195 |
| 40 km | ₹405 | ₹160 | ₹245 |
An app cab may also charge
- +Surge pricing at peak hours
- +Per-minute time charges
- +Waiting charges
What Chaloo charges
The published formula, and nothing more. No surge pricing, no wallet and no commission, at any hour of the day.
App-cab figures are estimates based on ₹90 for the first 5 km and ₹9 per km thereafter. They exclude surge and time charges, so the real difference at peak hours is usually greater.
How it works
From sign-in to drop-off, in three simple steps.
Verified work account
The app
Every journey, from first search to final record.
Find your destination, choose your route on a live map and keep a complete record of every ride. Every screen shown here is from the Chaloo app.
Search your destination
Find where you are going in seconds, with suggestions as you type.
Inside the app
A guided tour of Chaloo
Select passenger or driver, then choose any highlighted point on the phone to see how each feature works.
Passenger · Home
Search your destination
Enter where you are going. Chaloo looks for colleagues who are already driving that way.
Point 1 of 4
Point at a number to explore
Safety
Safety, built into every journey.
For commuters in India, and for women in particular, safety decides whether a service can be used at all. Chaloo treats it as the foundation, not a feature.
01
Under the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate
SOS, backed by Cyberabad Police
Chaloo is an initiative of the Cyberabad Police Commissionerate and the Society for Cyberabad Security Council. When you raise an SOS, it goes straight to a dedicated police console as well as your organisation’s safety team, so help is never more than one tap away.
Step 1
Tap SOS
Available from the top bar on every screen.
Step 2
Confirm
A single confirmation prevents accidental alerts.
Step 3
Location shared
Your live location and ride details are attached.
Step 4
Police console alerted
The Cyberabad Police console and your organisation's safety team are notified at once.
Step 5
Acknowledged and resolved
Every alert is tracked until it is closed.
02
Women-only driver mode
A female driver can choose to be matched with women passengers only. The preference applies only when the account holder is female, so it cannot be enabled speculatively.
03
Live tracking from the match
Passengers see the driver's position, route and estimated arrival in real time, from the moment of the match until the journey ends.
04
Mutual blocking
Either person can block the other, and a blocked pair is never matched again. No explanation is required.
05
A complete audit trail
Every significant action is recorded with who performed it, whom it affected and what changed, so any incident can be reviewed accurately.
What Chaloo does not claim
Chaloo reduces risk; it cannot remove it entirely. We would rather be clear about where the line is than let you discover it.
- We do not run criminal background checks.
- We do not place cameras in vehicles.
- We do not claim that a shared employer makes someone safe; it makes them accountable, traceable and known to people who can act.
If your organisation requires background verification, it carries this out on its side, and Chaloo will report against it.
Fair matching
Who gets the seat?
Most platforms keep their matching rules secret. Chaloo publishes its rule in full.
- Waiting time
- 50%
- How long the passenger has been waiting
- Detour distance
- 35%
- How little the driver has to go out of their way
- Passenger rating
- 15%
- Their rating from previous rides
Waiting time carries the most weight by design, so a steady stream of more convenient passengers can never leave someone behind. A request that expires unmatched keeps its waiting time for the next attempt.
Driver leaving Gachibowli
1 seat free · colleagues waiting on the route
A
9 min2.4 km4.6
Gets the seat
B
3 min0.6 km4.9
56
C
6 min1.5 km4.2
57
D
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Three colleagues are waiting. Each is scored on waiting time, detour and rating, and the highest score gets the seat.
Simplified illustration of the published weights: each factor is scaled from 0 to 1 before weighting (waiting up to 15 minutes, detour up to 5 km, rating out of 5).
A closer look
The Chaloo experience, screen by screen.
From a passenger’s first search to an administrator’s live dashboard, every screen shown here comes from the working platform.
Passenger
Search your destination.
Maps
Choose your route on Google Maps.
Driver
Offer your spare seats.
Driver
Live navigation, turn by turn.
Safety
One-tap SOS, backed by Cyberabad Police.
Passenger
A complete ride history.
Driver
Collect the calculated fare.
Your feedback
Your commute, in your own words.
Every improvement to Chaloo begins with a colleague who told us what would make the journey better. Share yours; it takes about a minute.
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Frequently asked questions
Questions, clearly answered.
14 answers to the questions we hear most often from employees and the organisations they work for.
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Verified employees only.
Chaloo is available exclusively to employees of registered organisations. You sign in with your work email address, and your organisation and campus are linked to your account automatically. As there is no public registration, every person you travel with is a verified colleague.
It begins with a single conversation.
Ask your HR, facilities or transport team to contact us, or write to us directly through the contact page. We then configure your organisation's campuses, administrators and safety team, and support you in introducing the programme to employees.
No. Most members travel as passengers.
Most members travel as passengers. If you drive, you can switch to driver mode at any time and offer the spare seats on a journey you are already making.
Usually a matter of minutes.
Chaloo matches you with colleagues travelling the same route shortly after you submit a request, so there is no need to book in advance. An on-screen countdown shows how long your request remains open.
An initiative of
- Cyberabad Police Commissionerate
- Society for Cyberabad Security Council
Your colleagues are already heading your way.
Every morning, people from the same neighbourhoods drive to the same campus, often with empty seats beside them. Chaloo turns those separate journeys into shared ones: calmer, more affordable and in good company.
Employees sign up and ride in the Chaloo mobile app. Web sign-in is for administrators.
- Verified colleagues only
- Fares set by a published formula
- SOS backed by Cyberabad Police