Chalen. Carpools for COMSATS Lahore students

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In testing at COMSATS Lahore, on Android

Students who drive to campus put their empty seats on Chalen. Take one and pay your share of the petrol, in cash.

In testing at COMSATS LahoreOn Android. Coming soon to Google Play.

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  1. 01 / 06Where to?Open Ride now and type it in. Ayesha is going from Faisal Town to COMSATS Lahore.
  2. 02 / 06Set your fareChalen suggests one from the distance and today’s petrol price. Go up or down from there.
  3. 03 / 06Pick a driverStudents driving that way answer with their fare. You see each face, car and plate before you choose.
  4. 04 / 06Watch the car comeFaisal’s car moves on your map. Send Ammi the link and she can watch it too.
  5. 05 / 06Check the codeAt the pickup, your four-digit code tells you it’s the right car.
  6. 06 / 06Pay in cashHand Faisal Rs 520 when you get there. Chalen doesn’t take a cut.

Sameroad?Gotogether.

Students who drive to COMSATS put their spare seats on Chalen. Students going the same way take them, and everyone splits the petrol in cash. The fare only covers petrol, so nobody makes money from the ride. You just stop paying for a rickshaw behind a classmate’s half-empty car.

Two ways to get there

Plan ahead with a carpool, or find a student driver nearby when you need one now. Either way you ride with students from your own campus.

Plan ahead

Carpool

Join a trip a student is already making.

  • The driver sets the seats, the time and the pickup.
  • Plan the week together in the carpool’s group chat.
  • Changed plans? Give your booking back before boarding.
How a carpool works
Right now

Ride now

A student driver, right now.

  • Choose a Bike, a Scooty or a Car.
  • Name your fare from the list. Drivers nearby answer, or counter.
  • You pick: by first name, photo, rating, trips, car and plate.
How Ride now works

Split the petrol.

Every fare is a share of the trip’s petrol. The app works out the most a seat can cost, and you pay the driver in cash.

How the petrol share works

What a seat can cost

Fixed once you see it

The fare on your trip doesn’t change on the way.

Read every day

Chalen reads the OGRA petrol price daily, so the ceiling follows the pump.

Cash, to the driver

You pay the student who drove you, in cash.

Chalen takes nothing

None of it goes to Chalen. The fare only ever covers petrol.

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Ammi sees the car, live

Share every trip with family. SOS calls 1122. Each of these is in the app.

Everything on safety

A live link for family

Send someone at home a link. It opens in any browser and shows the car on the map, live. It never shows the other riders.

One press calls Rescue 1122 and texts your trusted contacts.

Students of your own gender are shown to you first.

A code for each booking, so you know you are getting into the right ride.

Riders rate drivers, and drivers rate riders.

Report a problem, or block someone, from inside the app.

Plan pickups in the app chat. Never share your number.

Plan the week together

Every carpool gets its own group chat, and you join by choice. Settle the time with a poll, send a voice note when you’re running late, and keep your number to yourself.

  • Polls
  • Voice notes
  • Photos
  • Stickers

Try it: vote in the poll, or send a reply.

Sunset Squad Weekdays 5:15 PM to Block H, Johar Town
Yesterday
Bilal N.One seat left for tomorrow if anyone needs it
SanaA sticker of Sana holding up two cups of chai
Hamza0:07
Ayesha
Leaving time on Monday?
Message

Spare seats, shared petrol

Driving to campus anyway? Offer the seats you are not using. Riders pay their share of the petrol in cash, straight to you, and Chalen takes nothing.

Drive with Chalen

  1. 2 seats offeredModel Town Link Road to COMSATS Gate 1, 5:15 PM

    Bilal

    Tap a seat to offer it, or to take it back.

    Offer what you have. A car, a bike or a scooty. Add it once and its registration is checked.
  2. Your trip, your rules. Pick the route, the day, the time and the pickup.
  3. See what it covers. The app keeps count of what riders put toward your petrol each month.
COMSATS Lahore, for now

For COMSATS
students

Everyone on Chalen is a student at COMSATS University Lahore. You join with your uni email, so the people in your ride are from your campus.

Type it in to see what Chalen reads from it.

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Chalen?

Chalen is in closed testing at COMSATS Lahore, on Android. It is coming soon to Google Play.

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