Esoterix has launched a new service, SCOUT, predicting train loadings. Available on the Rail Data Marketplace, this service uses historic loading data to estimate how busy each service is likely to be every time it runs over the next 25 days. Crowding, or more specifically over-crowding, is one of passengers’ …
March 2025 Esoterix Systems and Southeastern Railway received *highly commended* in the Delivering for the Customer category at the SPOTLIGHT Rail Awards. Our project, PRISM, points regular customers to the best value tickets based on their individual travel patterns. For example, if a customer regularly buys Weekly tickets but travel …
Esoterix has secured grant funding from Innovate UK, through the Bridge Ai competition, to develop Crowding Alert Technology. This extends their existing prediction technology to reflect the impact of on-the-day operational events.
Recently, University of Bristol engineering student, Alby Stevens, got in touch asking if Esoterix would be willing to be interviewed on their student podcast, Degrees of Freedom. Degrees of Freedom looks to introduce STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to some of the directions their skills could take them in …
WAYRA Intelligent Mobility Accelerator Demo Day The WAYRA Intelligent Mobility Accelerator Demo Day took place on the Buffini Chao deck of the National Theatre on Wednesday, 30th November 2022. David and Liz travelled to London to join the eight other SMEs to present the outcomes from their participation in the programme. …
Mobility Camp, previously known as Transport Planning Camp, is in its 5th year. Having previously been in Leeds, Manchester, online, and Glasgow, this year it came south to Bristol and the Engine Shed. This year’s theme was ‘Backing Sustainable Transport’. Transport is responsible for 27% of UK greenhouse gas emissions, …
Esoterix is thrilled to have been selected as one of 9 SMEs for the 2022 cohort of WAYRA Intelligent Mobility Accelerator. Around 180 businesses applied to take part, so it is a particular honour to have made it through. The six month programme will facilitate partnerships between the challenge partners …
In case you missed last week’s Transport Innovation Expo, you can catch up on the whole event here And we were delighted to be part of the programme, presenting our TRIG20 project, FAST. Project FAST As is often the way with project names, FAST is a play on words. It …
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 …
