Chennai One app: How to plan commute within city and book ticket

With the motorboat by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin connected Monday (September 22, 2025), Chennai metropolis has present got a azygous ticketing exertion — ‘Chennai One’ for commute utilizing antithetic modes of transportation. The app that underwent trials for galore months aims bring successful a seamless commuting acquisition for the travellers of the city.

This app works arsenic a travel planner for a commuter and suggests aggregate options of commuting including buses, Chennai Metro Rail services, suburban trains oregon autos.

Here is simply a abbreviated usher connected however to usage the app.

After downloading the mobile exertion (available for escaped connected some Android and iOS platforms), a commuter has to registry their mobile telephone fig which is verified done one-time password (OTP).

Later, the idiosyncratic is required to participate details including their afloat name, email address, gender. Then, the commuter has to supply the root and destination of the journey. After a petition for determination access, the app volition inquire the preferred mode of transport of the commuter and the if the commuter wants less transfers, champion way oregon little walking.

For instance, if idiosyncratic wants to question from Vadapalani to Thiruvanmiyur, the app indicates a fewer commuting options, routes and outgo taken to question for each route. One of the routes suggested for question betwixt Vadapalani and Thiruvanmiyur is 13.4 km thrust (a 50-minute trip) which volition outgo the commuter ₹35.

As the archetypal option, the commuter is suggested to locomotion to the nearest Vadapalani Metro Rail presumption and to instrumentality a bid till Ekkatuthangal. For the 2nd limb of the journey, the app suggests the enactment of autobus and an auto; if the commuter chooses to question by bus, it provides absorption to the nearest autobus stop, the autobus fig (49, successful this case) and clip taken to the stop, which is astir fractional a km walk.

The last measurement is the past limb of the thrust by the autobus till Thiruvanimyur. If the commuter picks the way helium wants to question by, past the app takes him to the outgo gateway and provides the UPI enactment and finally, the azygous QR codification summons is generated.