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To: Huw Thomas, Kevin Roderick, David Hall, Simon Nicholls and Steve ChamberlainDate: March 31st 2016
AN INNOVATIVE PUBLIC TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTION IN
POWYS
Objectives for today• A brief background on Geosho• How our Public Transport systems came into
being• How Bwsiti works in Powys – demo• Rollout – Phase 2• Our vision for the effective management and
delivery of Public Transport information and analytics using online GIS & ubiquitous handheld technologies.
• To listen and learn more about your vision and plans for the strategic management and delivery of Public Transport information and passenger analytics in Wales.
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Clients around the world
CONNECTING PLACE & DATA
One web location platform, ubiquitous low cost distribution technologies
Mobile Apps Browsers & Web
Paper & PDF
Public Transport & Geosho
Bwsiti is an intelligent web TMS & connected journey companion App that uses smartphones, tablets & Geosho’s mapping & GIS platform to track, learn & publish bus routes, timetables & locate live & learnt bus travel status & passenger requests in Powys.
HOW DOES IT WORK ?Live Status and predictive timetabling based on learnt data
Covered 4 routes and 10 busesDriver AppPublic Journey planner AppJourney Data Analysis
Phase 1
Powys
2014> 320K Miles recorded>30 trial users
Introduce online TMS to support AppImprove bus driver AppEnhance Public Journey planner AppDevelop Analytics on TMS side
Phase 2
Powys
2016
Public Apps
Real-time bus positionsMulti-lingualJourney Planner
Public Apps
Offline timetablesNotifications / AlertsAnonymised usage analytics
Public Apps
ALERTS
DRIVER App
TMS - Timetable management system
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT ?1. People want to know where
their bus is.2. Drivers need better slicker
communication and automation.3. Timetable data quality poor.4. We do not know enough about
potential transport demand.
Phase 3
2016/17
• Make the Journey planning element fully multi-lingual.
• Improve & introduce new location based notifications & alerts for enhanced accessibility.
• Introduce iBeacons into vehicles.• Develop dynamic journey planning for rural
communities.• Add ticket pricing & revenue modeling for
operators to the TMS and public apps.• Improve & enhance public usage analytics.• Enhance existing driver communications &
interactions.• Add SIRI outputs to mobile, web, paper &
PDF.