Meet the brand: Prospective
We catch up with Peter Ferguson from Prospective to find out more about their brand and exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo, on stand T63
Tell us a bit about your company?
Prospective enables bus and coach operators to drive passenger growth and maximise fleet utilisation by synchronising individual service schedules and operational management with the wider transport network. Our planning and scheduling technology has been repeatedly proven to increase commercial and operational service performance on the road while saving fleet resources. Using our technology, operators have been able to achieve large and sustained improvements in service punctuality and reliability, increased boarding rates, higher net promoter scores and improved driver satisfaction.
Prospective is now improving passenger services across the country working in partnership with some of the UK's biggest operators. The company was founded by researchers from UCL, Cambridge and the Alan Turing Institute to help transport authorities and operators improve the competitiveness of public transport using cutting edge data science and automation. We work closely with our customers to help them transition to new ways of working, helping them build in more data driven decision making and automation into their daily workflows and unlocking time from their experienced internal teams to pursue more proactive service design work and stakeholder engagement.
Tell us about your latest product(s), service(s), promotions or launches visitors can hope to see on your stand?
Prospective offers operators and city authorities cloud hosted software products for automating continuous network planning, scheduling and daily operations decisions. Come to our stand to see our scheduling software in action and explore how your business can adopt and then make the most of these new technologies. We can show you how we build a digital replica of your existing services, predict future passenger and vehicle flows under different service design scenarios and build in automation pipelines for continuous scheduling that make the most of your existing fleet resources.
We will be available for 1-1 demonstrations of our scheduling software throughout Euro Bus Expo 2022, 1-3 November.
Why is exhibiting at Euro Bus Expo 2022 an unmissable opportunity for you?
We're passionate about improving public transport, making it a more competitive transport option that will improve quality of life in our cities, tackle congestion and help drive down transport related emissions. As a premier conference for the UK bus and coach industry, Eurobus is a great opportunity for us to meet with the industry stakeholders, better understand their current and emerging challenges and build new relationships that will help drive continuous improvements in service delivery across the UK.
Sowing the seeds for sustainable uniform management
Pride and Joy will be showcasing new sustainable uniforms ranges made from recycled materials at this year’s Euro Bus Expo.
Jane Byrne, managing director of Pride and Joy and her team will be on hand to advise and assist operators in how to make their uniforms more sustainable using the very latest in recycled textile technology and also how operators can reduce the environmental impact of end of life uniforms.
Jane Byrne says, “We believe the bus and coach industry can take its sustainable travel credentials to the next level, and have been researching ways in which we can assist our customers in reducing its environmental footprint through effective management of textile waste.
"Whilst our suppliers have been developing some fantastic new products made from recycled plastic bottles, we too have been doing a lot of research into how uniforms can be disposed of in the most environmentally friendly way. We are looking forward to having lots of conversations at Euro Bus Expo to raise awareness of the impact of textile waste and to understand what our customers are currently doing with their old uniforms.
On the lead up to Euro Bus Expo, Pride and Joy is running a social media campaign to get people thinking about the sustainability questions around uniforms and textile waste. "We've called it Pride and Joy in progress, because we are on a journey to learning more, understanding how we can make a change collectively, but we can only do this with by working with our customers. This is us sharing our thought process as we move towards a more sustainable business model. EuroBus is an opportunity to talk to operators and hopefully find ways we can work together in reducing our collective environmental impact.”
"We've not seen many of our customers for a long time due to the Pandemic, and this is our opportunity to catch up with everyone." Concludes Jane.
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Stand A16 Eurobus Expo
Monapass – One App, One Account, for Open Ticket Mobility
Flowbird has developed a unique ‘open ticket’ mobile platform that delivers a ‘one-app, one-account’ environment for integrated multimodal transport, active travel and ID-based subscriptions and passes.
The Monapass app, developed by Flowbird for the Principality of Monaco, offers users access to ‘a mobility system in their pocket’ by enabling access to account-based ticketing, secure in-app m-tickets storage, combined ticketing for travel and entertainment (museums, cinemas, tours) and integrated journey planning with parking, public transport and active travel.
Flowbird’s ‘open ticket portfolio’ functionality makes it possible to import and manage third-party ID-based passes and subscriptions for transit and other services, such as e-bike hire.
“Monapass is the complete mobility companion in your pocket,” said Paul Rogers, Flowbird Sales & Marketing Director. “We are expanding the traditional scope of MaaS apps to connect an ever-wider range of services and subscriptions and make them available through a secure, single sign-on account in a mobile environment. There is no need to manage multiple ID-based accounts through separate apps and we have advanced our vision for MaaS gateway to include access to multiple services through a single account and payments are through the Flowbird payment service.”
The Principality of Monaco is committed to digital transformation through its ‘Extended Monaco’ programme. As part of this agenda, the city has worked with Flowbird to deploy Monapass as a new approach to mobility for residents, tourists, and commuters.
MaaS is key to Monaco’s environmental commitment to reduce light vehicle traffic by 20% by 2030. The mobile application makes it easier for people to use their cars less, adopt greener modes of travel and improve their overall quality of life.
To find out more about our One App, One Account, Open Ticket Mobility, visit Flowbird on Stand T84 at Euro Bus Expo. You can see how this can work for your organisation today!