The rise of consistent and flexible cloud-hosted technology means that agencies can expect superior software performance without expensive or complicated hardware installation projects. Data analytics is revolutionizing the transit industry by enabling agencies to improve efficiency and data-driven decision making.
Housing real-time data on a single platform enables transit agencies to monitor all their operations in one place, including vehicle location, maintenance performance, and route conditions. With easy access to this data, companies can quickly identify potential issues, optimize operations, and make informed decisions. Let’s examine how Motive’s data can serve as the basis for all this functionality via the Swiftly Transit Data Platform.
Improved Passenger Experience
Transit agencies turn to data insights to ensure a safe and pleasant experience for passengers. By analyzing route data in real time, transit agencies can relay this information to passengers, ensuring they receive the most accurate information for a better overall experience. Additionally, data insights help transit agencies optimize their pricing strategies. They can set competitive prices and offer discounts at the right time by analyzing market trends, customer demand, and competitor pricing.
Accurate Operations Management and Planning
Route planning and traffic management are critical for transit agencies, and data analytics is revolutionizing these processes. By analyzing real-time route data, such as distance, traffic congestion, and road conditions, transit agencies can optimize route planning and make changes quickly to ensure consistency. Incorporating these insights into their operations can minimize travel time, reduce fuel consumption, and improve overall operational efficiency
Data analytics can also help transit agencies identify patterns and trends in traffic data, allowing them to make informed planning decisions and optimize their resources effectively.
Motive partners with Swiftly to enhance transit agency operations
Through the recent integration between Motive and Swiftly, transit agencies can power the full Swiftly insights, and passenger information through Motive’s platform. Easy-to-usel, fixed-route transit operators can expect a powerful suite of software solutions to operate, plan, and monitor their service from one platform. Further, the rapid GPS data from Motive devices can serve as the bedrock for Swiftly’s best-in-class prediction algorithm to create reliable ETAs for passengers.
“We are thrilled to partner with Motive to integrate their GPS data into Swiftly’s platform. The ability to access better raw vehicle position data enables Swiftly to create more robust and useful information, and Motive’s proven accuracy and API-driven solutions deliver superior results for our partner agencies to improve the passenger experience and service reliability.”
– Jonathan Simkin, Co-founder & CEO, Swiftly
The Motive for Swiftly integration greatly benefits fleet managers, executives, customer service agents, drivers, and more. Fleet managers can have clear visibility into real-time route performance, headway spacing (distance between vehicles) , and delays. Drivers benefit, too, with real-time feedback to mitigate performance issues and keep them on track.
Planners can optimize route performance by analyzing actual run times versus scheduled run times for every segment in their network. Having this visibility allows managers avoid slowdowns and proactively manage bunching and gapping for high-frequency routes.
Managers can also use the integration to improve driver performance and gain visibility into scheduled service to reduce unforeseen maintenance costs. Visit the App Marketplace and optimize operations with Motive and Swiftly today!
More about Swiftly
Swiftly is the leading transit data platform for agencies to share real-time passenger information, manage day-to-day operations, and improve service performance. Today, over 150 transit agencies in 10 countries – including LA Metro, MARTA, SEPTA, and MBTA – rely on Swiftly to improve on-time performance by up to 40%, increase passenger information accuracy by up to 50%, and analyze transit data 90% faster. The result is better service reliability, increased ridership, and more efficient transit operations. For more information, visit www.goswift.ly.
