A UK DRT Management Portal
Mobisoft is pleased to be working with the University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh Napier University and Quotient Associates on a major new project to simplify how Demand Responsive Transport is offered and booked.
Although Demand Responsive Transport (DRT - shared door to door public transport) has developed in a number of urban and rural areas, solutions are local with no mechanism to offer services further afield - for example if you wish to book DRT in Cornwall, does it exist?
Also, transport providers, particularly smaller ones, cannot offer their services to the users easily, even though demand and spare capacity exist, as they cannot afford to invest in advanced scheduling systems.
A DRT Management Portal will match the demand for shared transport to the supply and allow passengers to actually book transport in real time. A trial will demonstrate how existing operators can interface to their current systems and new, smaller, operators can offer their services directly.
The project will show how such an approach can remove the barriers to shared travel.
"We wish to offer new forms of flexible transport that people will actually use, by making it easy for them to use it" says Jeff Duffell the UK Operations Director with Mobisoft.
The attached presentation was recently given to the ITS group in Edinburgh by Dr James M Cooper of Napier University and Jeff Duffell.
Although Demand Responsive Transport (DRT - shared door to door public transport) has developed in a number of urban and rural areas, solutions are local with no mechanism to offer services further afield - for example if you wish to book DRT in Cornwall, does it exist?
Also, transport providers, particularly smaller ones, cannot offer their services to the users easily, even though demand and spare capacity exist, as they cannot afford to invest in advanced scheduling systems.
A DRT Management Portal will match the demand for shared transport to the supply and allow passengers to actually book transport in real time. A trial will demonstrate how existing operators can interface to their current systems and new, smaller, operators can offer their services directly.
The project will show how such an approach can remove the barriers to shared travel.
"We wish to offer new forms of flexible transport that people will actually use, by making it easy for them to use it" says Jeff Duffell the UK Operations Director with Mobisoft.
The attached presentation was recently given to the ITS group in Edinburgh by Dr James M Cooper of Napier University and Jeff Duffell.
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"We wish to offer new forms of flexible transport that people will actually use, by making it easy for them to use it"
Jeff Duffell
UK Operations Director Mobisoft
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