MaaS Bus Booking App Development

I’m putting together a mobility-as-a-service platform for bus travel and need a seasoned mobile developer to bring it to life. The heart of the product is ticket booking, but the experience must feel live and effortless from search to payment.

Real-time travel insight is essential. Riders should:

• Watch the bus move on a map with live location updates
• See accurate estimated arrival times
• Receive instant notifications when delays happen
• Always be shown the best price available for their journey

Payments have to be friction-free. Version 1 must fully support:

• Credit/Debit cards
• Mobile wallets
• Bank transfers

Scope
You’ll own the end-to-end build: intuitive UI/UX, scalable back-end, API integrations for mapping, vehicle data and payments, through to store deployment. Clean, well-documented code in a modern cross-platform stack (Flutter, React Native, Kotlin Multiplatform—open to your recommendation) is important, as is a modular architecture that lets me add other transport modes later.

Acceptance criteria

1. Passenger app (iOS & Android) with ticket booking as the primary workflow.
2. Real-time modules delivering every point listed above.
3. Fully tested payment flow covering all three methods.
4. Basic admin interface or API endpoints for routes, schedules, fares and tickets.
5. Source code in a private repo with build instructions and concise technical docs.

If you can own this from concept to launch, tell me how you’d tackle it and your proposed timeline.