Best value travel
Esoterix’ new service takes the complication out of choosing the best value season ticket by advising passengers based on the frequency of their travel along their preferred route.
Esoterix’ new service takes the complication out of choosing the best value season ticket by advising passengers based on the frequency of their travel along their preferred route.
The railways have been backward in collecting and using customer data. Williams Shapps Report for Rail, 2021 It’s over 25 years since the Tesco Clubcard was introduced. Since then, retail loyalty schemes have become commonplace with at least 75% of UK adults belonging to at least one. They work well …
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 …
Think back to the last time you travelled on an overcrowded train. Were you hemmed into your seat or stuck in the gangway? Did you cautiously ask yourself if you needed the loo?Hope the answer was no. Resolve not to think about it again. Don’t make the thought a reality. …
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 …
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 …
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 …