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Bengaluru-based Hical Technologies has launched Corporate Commute, an integrated integer solution aimed astatine encouraging employees to displacement to nationalist transport for regular travel.
The inaugural has been rolled retired successful concern with mobility level Tummoc arsenic portion of the Station Access and Mobility Program (STAMP) Nudge Innovation Challenge.
The STAMP situation is led by WRI India and the Toyota Mobility Foundation, with enactment from manufacture and transport stakeholders including ELCIA, ELCITA, BMRCL, and BMTC. The programme seeks to summation metro and autobus usage among firm employees, peculiarly those moving on high-density employment corridors.
Announcing the initiative, Soumya Venkatesh, Sustainability Head, Hical, said, “Corporate Commute is designed to marque sustainable commuting easier done integer onboarding, automated eligibility checks and nonstop incentives linked to nationalist transport usage. Employees tin program routes, acquisition metro tickets oregon autobus passes and way rewards done a azygous interface, portion employers tin show participation, inducement utilisation and estimated c savings.”
Boardings transverse 10.8 lakh
According to the BMRCL, the Bengaluru metro has seen a dependable emergence successful ridership pursuing the motorboat of the Yellow line. It contributed to regular boardings crossing 10.8 lakh successful August 2025. “With the Pink and Blue Lines nether development, integer integration by the BMRCL including QR-based ticketing, mobile applications and multi-mode outgo systems volition marque the metro much charismatic to regular commuters, particularly those employed successful the IT sector,” Yashwanth Chavan, main nationalist relations serviceman of the BMRCL said.
Incentives & How it Works
Kickstart support: Wallets volition beryllium pre-loaded with ₹800 for 50 selected employees to bargain metro tickets and autobus passes.
Cashback pool: ₹550 disposable arsenic 10% cashback connected each metro thrust until the excavation is exhausted.
Top performers: Top 5 connected the leaderboard person further incentives up to ₹1,000/month based connected rank.
Easy access: Employees nexus their enactment email IDs to a concern illustration connected their existing Tummoc relationship (or make a caller 1 and nexus the ID).
As portion of the aviator phase, the Hical volition supply commuting incentives to a selected radical of 50 employees. Wallets volition beryllium pre-loaded with ₹800 for purchasing metro tickets and autobus passes, on with a cashback excavation offering 10% returns connected metro rides. Additional monthly incentives of up to ₹1,000 volition beryllium awarded to apical performers connected a leaderboard that tracks rides taken and estimated c emissions saved.
Tummoc, which operates arsenic a Mobility-as-a-Service level for this initiative, enables end-to-end travel readying crossed metro, autobus and last-mile options specified arsenic autorickshaws, bikes and cabs.
Visible impact
Srinivas Alavilli, Fellow, WRI India, said, “The aviator demonstrates however targeted incentives and disposable interaction metrics tin accelerate a displacement towards nationalist transport successful large employment hubs. The partners volition measure uptake, last-mile choices and idiosyncratic engagement during the aviator earlier evaluating the imaginable for scaling the exemplary crossed different companies and metro stations successful Bengaluru.”
