In the highly populated city of Cairo, it may take a commuter several hours just to figure out which public transportation routes to take to arrive at a place they’ve never visited before – especially if a “helpful” stranger along the way gives you wrong instructions. In a bid to solve the problems arising from the lack of transportation data, entrepreneur AbdulRahman Said founded and launched an application, Arkabeh (What Should I Ride), to function as a public transportation guide. The application, which also has a complementary website, helps to guide users from one place to another by public transportation. “I came up with Arkabeh to help fulfill such a gap between the commuter and the local network of transportation,” 25-year-old Said told Egyptian Streets. Said studied computer engineering in Ain Shams University, after which he penetrated the entrepreneurial ecosystem with his idea to introduce a novel solution to the lack of communication between commuters and varying means of transportation. Diving more into the issue, Said told Egyptian Streets that the time of public transport buses is not regular for commuters, particularly as their numbers are not clear or known through an online hub or…
‘Arkabeh’ App Helps Simplify Public Transportation for Cairo’s Commuters
April 20, 2016
