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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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Transit insights

Combining anecdotes with data for a complete picture of transit operations

Examining transit data under a microscope can identify larger trends. With Swiftly’s GPS Playback, agency staff can zoom in on any line or trip.
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David Lonergan
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Webinars

Webinar: 5 ways to improve on-time performance

Access the recording to hear five strategies every transit agency can use to significantly improve on-time performance.
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Case studies

How transit data powered Miami-Dade’s network redesign

Miami-Dade Transit recently launched their Better Bus Network, the biggest network overhaul in county history.
Morgan Greene
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Product announcements

Swiftly Run-Times data now available right in Optibus

Our new integration with Optibus puts Swiftly’s best-in-class historical time data right in the Optibus Performance Suite.
Matt Fleck
Case studies

X-trafik in Sweden increases on-time performance by 5% with Swiftly

Since 2020, X-trafik has partnered with Swiftly to improve service reliability—working towards increasing overall on-time performance to 73%.
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Victor Gomez
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Transit insights

How on-target is that ETA, really? Now there’s a way to know.

We pop open the hood on a shared benchmark to measure the accuracy of public transit’s real-time countdowns
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Case studies

How Pierce Transit used Swiftly to improve prediction accuracy by up to 50%

Pierce Transit has been serving the people of Pierce County for 40 years. The agency prides itself on providing affordable and expansive service...
Sam Lewis
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Transit insights

5 ways to improve your agency’s on-time performance

On-time performance, or reliability, is one of the most important drivers of transit ridership. Read about 5 levers to pull to improve your OTP.
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Transit insights

Detour ahead: Supporting detours from beginning to end

Swiftly bring riders highly accurate, detour-aware, real-time information—informed by hundreds of on-site hours with agencies.
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Meredith Bordoni
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Case studies

RTA Dubai builds passenger trust with increased fleet visibility

Working Swiftly, RTA Dubai was able to provide instant access to live operational data, including predictive ETAs and trip replays, to over 200...
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Reports

The State of Public Transit 2024

Dig into our annual report for an overview of the transit industry today and to assess the state of your agency using our Transit Data Scorecard.
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Transit insights

3 lessons from hundreds of data therapy sessions

Discover the top data quality challenges among transit agencies and how to solve them.
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