Best Public Transportation Software
Government agencies that oversee public transportation systems depend on public transportation software to manage operations, infrastructure, and their environmental impact, and to ensure compliance with public transport regulations. This software helps manage timetables and ticketing, driver assignments, route planning (including detours), and passenger safety and security, as well as maintenance for buses, trains, and other transit vehicles. Often, these tools utilize geolocation tracking to ensure both administrators and riders can access real-time data about vehicle status.
Beyond fixed route transit management, transportation agencies also need public transportation software to manage on-demand and paratransit dispatch operations to serve residents with disabilities who require ADA-compliant access to public transit. These tools help track and improve the costs of these on-demand transport operations and maintenance, as well as the passenger satisfaction and comfort.
Some public transportation solutions may offer a complete set of features and functions for administrative operations and back-office maintenance, such as accounting or computerized asset management, or may integrate with solutions that handle those tasks. More advanced solutions offer features for passenger flow tracking and simulation. POS terminals may also link to public transportation solutions to facilitate the sale of tickets. As mobility as a service (MaaS) solutions continue to gain traction, these tools will also likely evolve to provide one centralized platform for a city’s entire public transportation operations.
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Best Public Transportation Software At A Glance
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PtMS is a GIS map based paratransit and NEMT software system that supports order taking, trip editing, automated scheduling, dispatching, billing, reporting, HIPAA 837 transactions, automated appointm
- 50% Mid-Market
- 33% Small-Business
226 Twitter followers
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RideCo is an on-demand transit technology and services company that enables on-demand ridesharing for transit agencies in cities around the globe. We partner with transit agencies and experienced flee
- 80% Mid-Market
- 20% Small-Business
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Moovit Mobility as a Service (MaaS) solutions helps businesses and governments improve urban mobility. With over 520M users in more than 2,900 cities across over 90 countries, Moovit (www.moovit.com),
- 67% Mid-Market
- 33% Small-Business
12,874 Twitter followers
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A cloud-native SaaS company founded in 2014, Optibus is an end-to-end software solution for public transportation planning, scheduling, rostering, and operations. Public agencies, private operators, a
- 67% Small-Business
- 33% Enterprise
3 Twitter followers
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PTV Visum is the leading software for macroscopic & mesoscopic transportation planning and mobility modeling. It enables cities, agencies, consultants, & researchers to simulate multimodal tra
- 67% Enterprise
- 33% Mid-Market
3,014 Twitter followers
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TransCAD is used to model transport networks and travel demand, to analyse expected traffic flows, to plan public transport services and to develop advanced transport strategies and solutions.
- 33% Enterprise
- 33% Mid-Market
1,212 Twitter followers
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Trapeze EAM is a comprehensive transit asset management software application designed for tracking all transit infrastructure for which the agency is responsible: rolling stock, facilities assets, mai
- 40% Enterprise
- 40% Mid-Market
2,204 Twitter followers
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ViewPoint is a transit intelligence reporting solution that assists all levels of your management team in making well-informed, timely business decisions.
- 67% Small-Business
- 33% Mid-Market
2,204 Twitter followers
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Hotspot is an end-to-end, infrastructure-free software solution deployed in over 150 clients across North America to manage your city or institution's network. From our start-up origins in 2013, we’v
- 33% Mid-Market
- 33% Enterprise
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Remix brings together the complete transportation picture in a single software platform. We build products that help cities and planners collaborate across silos and design the best transportation opt
- 50% Mid-Market
- 50% Enterprise
5,146 Twitter followers
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Pantonium uses a complex algorithm to maximize efficiency in planning transportation. It offers a web based designed fleet management system that is tailored to the customers needs.
- 100% Small-Business
389 Twitter followers
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THE FLEXIBLE, INTEGRATED SOLUTION TO OPTIMIZE PUBLIC TRANSPORT HASTUS is a complete software solution for bus, metro, tram and passenger rail operations, trusted by authorities and operators around t
- 100% Enterprise
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Masabi’s Justride is the leading fare payments platform for public transport, helping transit agencies ands transport operators move away from expensive, stagnant and closed bespoke fare collection sy
- 100% Small-Business
2,533 Twitter followers
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NimBus comprises the core functionality of satellite tracking system and specialized tools designed for passenger transportation management.
- 100% Mid-Market
2 Twitter followers
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At RideAmigos, we are on a mission to change the way the world commutes, for good. Our mobile and web-based commuter engagement solutions combine innovative technology with proven principles of behavi
- 100% Mid-Market
1,404 Twitter followers
