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Ghost buses are everywhere. Meet the benchmark haunting them back.

Ghost buses hurt rider trust. The ETA Completeness Benchmark measures what accuracy can’t: whether riders get real-time info at all.
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Case studies

6 real-world lessons from agencies facing budget pressure

Explore 6 proven strategies that help agencies when budgets tighten.
Matt Fleck
Webinars

Webinar: Lessons in budget resilience—Balancing efficiency and reliability

Learn how planners and schedulers from both agencies and a consultancy use precise transit data to design reliable, efficient service.
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Product announcements
Transit insights

Resolving data issues proactively with a Transit Data Platform

Swiftly empowers agencies to measure, monitor, and improve critical data sources. Learn about new tools and the most common transit data issues.
Sam Bleiberg
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Transit insights

Banishing ghost and zombie buses

Ghost and zombie buses leave riders frustrated and in the dark. Learn how to banish them with accurate and reliable real-time information.
Ritesh Warade
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Transit insights

Delivering best-in-class passenger information

Learn how transit agencies can improve the rider experience with industry-leading passenger information.
Ritesh Warade
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Case studies

“Swiftly is a game changer”: How Valley Metro improved on-time performance by 10% with Swiftly

Learn how Valley Metro’s Operations and Scheduling teams leveraged reliable transit data to improve service reliability and efficiency.
Matt Fleck
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Case studies

Breaking the CAD/AVL mold: How DCTA uses Swiftly’s real-time data engine to power its operations

DCTA improved on-time performance by 18.6% and cut early departures by 55%, all without a traditional CAD/AVL system.
Matt Fleck
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Product announcements

How transit agencies prioritize the rider experience during disruptions

Swiftly is streamlining disruption communications to save time and improve the information riders receive during changes to service.
Ritesh Warade
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Transit insights

Prioritizing riders in times of budget uncertainty: 5 strategies to maintain trust

Learn 5 real-world strategies agencies are using to maintain service reliability while making every dollar count.
Ritesh Warade
Case studies

Swiftly and Miovision Opticom deliver a modern TSP solution—saving rider time and agency costs

With this cloud-based TSP solution, RABA saves commuters 15% travel time per trip (3.5 hours monthly) and reduces hardware costs.
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Case studies

Strætó improves real-time passenger information for tourists and locals with Swiftly

With Swiftly, Strætó has already improved OTP by 20% and now integrates consistent RTPI across rider-facing channels.
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Victor Gomez
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Case studies

Ketchikan’s The Bus improves staff and rider communication with Swiftly

“The communication aspect has been exceptional. This is how we effectively serve the public, and this is how we ensure consistency in doing so.”
Jacquelyn Broader
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