KYIV, April 21 – The world's largest road travel marketplace BlaBlaCar has bought the Ukrainian automated bus passenger transport management company Octobus.

According to a BlaBlaCar, Octobus is a cloud-based platform that enables bus carriers to automate their business processes, from sales and marketing to analytics, accounting and fleet management.

It is expected that thanks to the joint efforts of Octobus and BlaBlaCar, bus carriers will receive key functionality that will help them to be competitive and increase the pace of development in the current market conditions. These include the ability to create own website and mobile application for online sales, as well as own call center for phone sales and a mobile application for drivers and staff.