Live map of every van
One screen showing every vehicle on the road right now, its speed, how many children are on board and how many stops it has cleared.
School & university transport
Parents stop guessing where the van is.
Safar puts every school van and university bus on a live map. The driver taps one button, parents get told the van has left, watch it move, and get a push five minutes before it reaches their stop — and the moment their own child climbs aboard.
- Languages in the driver app
- 3
- To start a run, mark a child, or report a breakdown
- 1 tap
- Stored, with times, for as long as you need it
- Every run
The problem
A school van in Karachi is a black box.
Between the moment a van leaves the yard and the moment a child walks through the door, nobody can tell you anything. Not the school. Not the contractor. Not the driver, who is driving. That gap is where every complaint, every argument and every genuinely frightening hour comes from.
Parents wait at the gate from 6:50 for a van that might come at 7:25
There is no ETA, no notification, and no number to call except the driver's — who should not be answering it. So the parent stands outside, or the child does, every single morning.
The school office is a call centre it never asked to be
Every morning the administrator fields the same call: where is the van. They do not know either. They call the contractor, who calls the driver, who is on Shahrah-e-Faisal. By the time there is an answer the van has arrived.
When something goes wrong, it is forty minutes of silence
A puncture on the way to school means nobody hears anything until the van is late, the school is calling, and thirty parents are calling the school. The information exists — it is in the driver's head.
Nobody can prove what happened last Tuesday
A parent says their child was left at the stop. The driver says otherwise. The school is in the middle with no record, and the school is the one with the reputation to lose.
Contractors have no way to defend their own service
When a school threatens to switch contractors over lateness, the contractor has nothing to show. No times, no routes, no evidence that the vans ran exactly as agreed.
University students turn up at a point and hope
No idea when the bus reaches their point, no idea whether there is a seat. Buses leave half empty on one route while students stand at another, and the transport office is running it on a WhatsApp group.
How Safar works
One button for the driver. A live map for everyone else.
The whole system rests on the person with the least time and the least patience for software — the driver. If it is not one tap, it does not get used, and nothing downstream works. So it is one tap.
The driver taps START
A single green button, in Urdu by default. Every parent on that route is immediately told the van has left, and the phone begins sharing the van's location — in the background, screen off, pocket.
Parents watch it come
The van moves on a live map. Five minutes before it reaches their stop, the parents waiting at that stop — and only that stop — get a push: have your child ready.
Each child is marked on board
The driver taps a name. That child's parents get 'Hania is on the van, picked up at 7:06.' The message every parent in Pakistan wants and almost none of them get.
Problems travel instantly
Tyre puncture, traffic, breakdown, road blocked — six picture buttons, one tap, no typing. Every parent still riding knows within seconds, with an honest delay estimate.
What you get
Everything Safar does, in one place.
Arrival and boarding alerts
Van left, five minutes from your stop, van at your stop, child on board, child dropped. Each one goes only to the people it concerns.
One-tap incident reporting
Puncture, breakdown, heavy traffic, road blocked, fuel stop, accident. Picture buttons in Urdu, Roman Urdu or English. No typing on a hard shoulder.
Driver identity in every parent's hand
Name, photo, licence number, blood group and a one-tap call button for the driver and the helper on the van their child is riding.
Route builder on a map
Click the map to drop each stop in the order the van drives it. Set planned times, assign the van, done. About an hour per route, once.
University seat booking
Students find the nearest point on any route passing near them, see how many minutes until the bus reaches it, and take a seat — or see the bus is already full.
Permanent run history
Every run stored: when the van left, when it reached each stop, which child boarded at what time, and every delay reported. This is what settles the argument.
Fee and contractor reconciliation
What each parent owes for transport and what the school owes each contractor, both priced off the same headcount nobody can argue with.
Works on a cheap Android phone
Runs on handsets from around 2018 onward and uses roughly 15–20 MB of data a month. Less than one WhatsApp video.
Who it's for
One system. Every person it has to serve.
Schools
The office stops taking 'where is the van' calls, and finally has a record when a parent disputes something.
- Live map of every van serving the school
- Per-run history for any day in the last month
- Transport fees billed and reconciled against a real headcount
- A safety feature to put in next year's prospectus
Universities
Point-to-point shuttles that students can actually find, and occupancy numbers the transport office has never had.
- Students see the nearest point and the seats left before they leave home
- Real occupancy per run, per day — which routes to add and which to cut
- 'Bus full' settled in the app instead of at the door
- Same routes and buses you already run
Transport contractors
Proof the vans ran on time, and something no competitor in Karachi is offering the schools you want next.
- Their whole fleet across every school they serve, on one screen
- Evidence when a school questions the service
- A reason for the next school to sign with them
- Vans and drivers stay theirs — the school never edits the fleet
Drivers
One screen, giant buttons, Urdu. And a record that protects them when a parent says the van never came.
- One green START button and one red END
- Tap a name to mark a child on board
- Six picture buttons when something goes wrong
- Urdu, Roman Urdu or English
Parents
The van on a map, the driver's name and number, and a message the moment their child is safely aboard.
- Live location and minutes-to-your-stop
- A push when the child boards and when they are dropped
- The driver's name, photo and one-tap call
- Instant word when the van is delayed, and why
University students
Find a bus near you, see whether there is a seat, take it. No standing at a point hoping.
- Every run passing within 2.5 km, ranked by walking distance
- Seats left, or BUS FULL, before they walk over
- One tap to book, one to cancel
- The same live map and arrival alerts
Why it pays for itself
The case you can take to whoever signs the cheque.
The 'where is the van' call stops
Parents have the answer on their phone before they think to dial. The administrator who spent an hour every morning on this gets the hour back.
Disputes end with a record, not an argument
Every run is stored with times. When a parent raises last Tuesday, you open last Tuesday. The school stops being the referee between a parent and a driver.
You find out what you are actually paying for
Most schools do not know their real transport headcount, and most universities do not know their occupancy. Safar shows both, which routinely pays for the subscription on its own.
Where it runs
Web back office
For school, university and contractor staff. Live map, roster, routes, run history, seat occupancy and billing.
Android app
One app, four faces by role — driver, parent, student and transport manager. Background GPS, push alerts, offline-tolerant.
Urdu, Roman Urdu, English
The driver app defaults to Urdu. Everyone picks their own language and it follows them across devices.
Subscription
Priced in rupees, for how Pakistani organisations actually buy.
Monthly subscription, no setup fee, and we build your data with you in the first session. Cancel whenever — we would rather keep you because it works.
Pilot
Freefor 4 weeks
One route, up to 20 children. No contract, no card. If those parents do not ask you to put every route on it, we stop.
- One route, one van, up to 20 riders
- Every feature, nothing held back
- We draw the route with you in the first session
- Ends by itself — nothing to cancel
Standard
Rs 150/ rider / month
The whole system for every child or student who actually uses transport. Minimum Rs 15,000 a month.
- Unlimited routes, vans and drivers
- Live map, alerts, incident reporting, full history
- Transport fee and contractor reconciliation
- Free setup — we build your routes with you
- WhatsApp and phone support in Urdu or English
Contractor-paid
Rs 150/ rider / month
The same thing, billed to the transport contractor instead — for when the contractor is the one who wants it, to keep a school or win the next one.
- One account across every school the contractor serves
- Each school sees only its own vans and children
- Fleet-wide live view for the contractor
- Same price, same features
Questions we actually get asked
Safar, answered.
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