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TheBus delivers stellar service to the city of Honolulu. Image: John Fowler
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How Honolulu’s TheBus Uses Operator Reports to Understand On-Time Performance and Boost Morale

TheBus is always working to improve public transit reliability in Honolulu county, and with Operator Reports from Swiftly, the agency can...
Sam Lewis
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52 Best Startup Companies To Watch Out For in 2020

AngelList features Swiftly as one of the 52 companies to keep on your radar in 2020.
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Product announcements

Introducing the Swiftly Operator Reports Module

Operator Reports gives agencies a neutral, data-driven perspective into how operators are driving their routes and executing their schedules...
We’re thrilled to announce our latest module, Operator Reports, the first transit tool to give agencies a neutral, data-driven perspective into how operators are driving their routes and executing their schedules.
Transit insights

Uncover Your Data Blindspot: Introducing the Swiftly Operator Reports Module

Riddle us this: What do all public transit agencies have in common? If you said coffee machines and access to bus washes, well technically yes...
Matt Fleck
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Swiftly, Transit partner to enhance real-time passenger information

Swiftly and Transit announce a partnership to get real-time data in the hands of riders and transit agencies.
Vehicle operators check their mirrors to see into their blindspots. It’s time operations teams do the same for the blindspots of their own data.
Transit insights

The Operator Data Blindspot and How It’s Hurting Transit Ridership

During the last five years, transit ridership has declined in all but six cities across the country, and pundits have thought up innovative ways...
Swiftly
Earlier this month, we sat down with Tamika Butler, Director of Equity & Inclusion at Toole Design, and talked about the role that data can play in transit and equity.
Transit insights

Data Is a Tool for Equity and Inclusion

Transit decisions have the power to impact the entire trajectory of a person’s life. For underprivileged groups living far from job and education...
Siena Guerrazzi
Siena Guerrazzi
Press

Capital Metro updates ETA for journey-planning app

Capital Metro enlists Swiftly to onboard routers to improve bus location updates down from roughly 120-second frequencies to 10-second intervals.
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How Swiftly is Harnessing Big Data to Improve City Transit

Swiftly CEO, Jonny Simkin, speaks with Samsung NEXT about how Swiftly is using big data to transform urban transit.
Austin’s Capital Metro has worked hard to upgrade their rider experience.
Transit insights
Case studies

Capital Metro Uses Swiftly to Help Improve the Customer Experience and Increase Ridership

How do you become one of the only transit agencies in the country that can boast increasing ridership...
Sam Lewis
It’s time for agencies to ask questions about headway consistency in earnest, then structure policies that treat poor headway performance according to what’s causing it.
Transit insights

The Case for Revising Headways Policies

The transit industry is full of performance metrics. On-time performance, miles between accidents, passengers per hour, vehicle miles traveled...
Laramie Bowron
Press
Case studies

Mind the Gap: Best practices in bus headway management

Capital Metro (Austin) shares best practices around dynamic and proactive headway management.
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