Until recently, it didn’t really matter who exactly got on the train or the bus, just as long as enough people did. That has changed…
The 3rd in our series of blogs by Vinita Nawathe Suppliers can either provide what people want; or get people to want what they provide. When it comes to transport, operators and policy makers need to understand who wants to travel where, when and why. But it is also important …
Like many in the transport industry, I have been very much enjoying Thomas Ableman’s new blog, Freewheeling. However, I missed this one when it was published. Coming to it late, I’m surprised it hasn’t garnered more debate on LinkedIn. I (we, at Esoterix) have spent a lot of time looking …
By Rosie Beeston We went back to the future, but not like in the movie. There wasn’t a Delorean nor a lightning strike on a clock tower. And this graph may not have the same dramatic climax as when Michael J. Fox reached 88 mph, but we’re quite excited about …
The second in our series of guest blogs by Vinita Nawathe A safe, convenient, accessible, integrated public transport system that takes people where they want to go, when they want to go, should be a cornerstone of a “build back better” transport strategy. Transport is an enabler not an end …
Today the Department for Transport has announced the latest winners of the T-TRIG programme. The FAST project, Find a Seat on a Train, is amongst them. @EsoterixSystems have established ‘Find A Space on a Train’ #FAST The project uses the weight data of carriages to provide capacity estimates for …
By Vinita Nawathe Transport is an enabler. There are lots of reasons to move people and things from one place to another; transport solutions come out of understanding what needs moving, where and why. Solutions that meet needs provide opportunities for different uses. Over millennia more people, more goods and …
Dr Katharina Burger from the University of Bristol, with Raffaello Rossi from the University of Bristol and Elisa Becker from the University of Exeter, are collaborating with transport solutions company Esoterix, to interrogate rail travel data and make pricing recommendations to benefit both the train operators and rail travellers. A …
Esoterix has secured £380,000 funding to accelerate the development of technology that will underpin fairer fares on rail. The Department for Transport have awarded the grant through Innovate UK as part of the First of a Kind in Rail 2020 competition. This project will advance machine learning algorithms to reward …
Shared mobility is without doubt one of the most significant movements in transport, both publicly and privately. Companies like Uber – which generated revenues of $11.27 billion in 2018 – have thoroughly disrupted conventional thinking around vehicle use and ownership, as well as mobility more broadly. And yet the Uber …
