SWSAL (South West Smart Applications Limited) has strengthened its pivotal role in supporting the region’s efficient and effective integrated smart-transport managed service.
Following the purchase of ACT Analytics, SWSAL now has the tools to utilise the region’s wealth of transport data to help its members create operational efficiencies and improve passenger transport services for residents and visitors alike.
ACT Analytics is a powerful analytical platform that gives transport operators, local authorities and transport planners extensive powers to interrogate passenger transport data in a way that turns complex data into meaningful business information.
As the adoption of smart ticketing continues across the South West, a huge amount of data is collected about passengers and their travel patterns. But data on its own is of limited value. Real value is only achieved if data is translated into meaningful information that can inform business decisions and service delivery. And that’s what ACT Analytics does, quickly and easily.
Benefits
ACT Analytics helps SWSAL members gain in-depth knowledge from various channels of data including retail, journeys, payment and mobile preferences. This helps them to improve services and reduce costs through:
Joining up public transport across the region
Public transport in South West England is being transformed through a partnership of local authorities and bus operators implementing smart ticketing across the region. From the smallest transport operator to the largest, joining services together using smart card schemes is simplifying travel for visitors and local residents.
Andrew Seedhouse, SWSAL Chairman, advised: “SWSAL uses ACT Analytics to gain valuable insight into passenger journey patterns, for both concessionary pass holders and those using commercial smart cards. By sharing the technology infrastructure, SWSAL members have benefitted from lower costs and proven knowledge. We are now able to use the valuable transport data collected across the region to gain the insight needed to target efficiencies savings and make further improvements to passenger transport services.”
Better transport planning and improved forecasting ensures transport services match passenger demand. Through ACT Analytics, transport operators have the information and tools they need to effectively, and cost efficiently, plan their services around the needs of their passengers.
Gary Watts, ACT CEO said: “More and more of our customers are opting to use ACT Analytics to unlock the intelligence in the data generated by their smart ticketing scheme and use this to enhance the passenger retail and travel experience.”
For further information, please contact:
Joanne Hutchinson, Marketing Manager,
Applied Card Technologies Limited.
T: 01249 751200
W: www.weareACT.com
E: info@weareACT.com