Swindon’s Bus Company launch website on Passenger Cloud platform
The Passenger team launch Swindon’s Bus Company’s new website, featuring journey planning, live departure times, fares and tourist information.
New Business Portal launched for batch ticket distribution
Passenger’s new Business Portal allows operators to sell travel to businesses, schools and universities by giving them access to an easy-to-use operator-branded online portal.
‘Passenger Professional’ mobile ticketing launches for smaller bus operators
Following a successful deployment with Warrington’s Own Buses last year, the Passenger team are pleased to launch Passenger Professional, a streamlined mobile ticketing app product designed for operators with smaller fleets.
Passenger launches two new websites for morebus and UNIBUS
It’s a double launch as both UNIBUS and morebus release their Passenger created websites, each with new journey planning functionality alongside service updates, attractions and timetables.
Customer story – Blackpool Transport
Blackpool Transport is dedicated to a modernised, transparent network accessible to all. We’ve been working with the operator since 2017 to make bus travel easier for all and align our products with its inclusivity aims. Find out how we did it!
Increasing customer confidence in buses with vehicle tracking
Since its launch, our RTI service Live Buses has proven to be a huge success for Reading Buses, Yellow Buses and Blackpool Transport. With more deployments to come in 2019, we thought it would be useful to provide a little more insight into what Live Buses does and how it can inspire confidence in the using bus.
Customer story – Nottingham City Transport
Nottingham City Transport discusses the phenomenal year in which it launched 53 biogas buses and won multiple awards, and reveals how the expertise and dedication of Passenger helped the municipally owned team modernise a service with a 140-year heritage.
Voice technology is integral to the future of bus travel – here’s why
Smart speakers are one of the fastest-growing consumer technologies on the market today. If you’re undecided whether they are a gimmick or present an opportunity, read on to find out why it’s the latter. In the coming years, smart speakers and voice assistants will change the way we live our lives.
A revolution on your wrist: why Passenger is invested in the smartwatch
It wasn’t so long ago that the smartwatch felt destined for the dumpheap of the “fad” – but time’s not up for this technology just yet. Fast-forward a few short months and the numbers – not to mention the movements of tech giants like Apple and Alphabet – tell a different story. Here’s why Passenger remains firm in its dedication to smartwatch development.
2018 has been a phenomenal year for Passenger. We expanded our family of partners by 12, increased mobile ticket sales by nearly 200% and maintained an average app store review of 4.6 out of 5! Learn more about what we've been up to over the last year in our 2018 Year in Review.
Improving Passenger: How we’ve recently upgraded our development environments
Passenger’s numerous development environments were previously built using Vagrant. This article shares how we’ve recently made our development environments more portable, scalable and secure by moving them to Docker.
Passenger launches Ticket Gifting
The latest addition to Passenger’s suite of features enables the buyer of a ticket to allocate it to another. This Ticket Gifting process introduces more flexibility to the purchase of mobile tickets at a time when customers are looking for more ways to buy and share their travel.