geotra wag presentation 2016 short (1)

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.