Shotl - On-demand Bus Platform
Channel: Shotl
Date: 2018-11-16

Shotl is a mobility platform that empowers bus operators to start providing on-demand bus services. The technology makes people's mobility more efficient thanks to a technology that organises and dispatches demand responsive transportation in an effective and consistent way.

Thanks to instant communication with users, it is now possible to have access to passengers’ demand in real time, which allows public servants provide a much more attractive service to commuters with the same infrastructure (in terms of vehicles and drivers) while lowering the costs of passenger/km. 

There is an urgent need for transport operators and public transport authorities to provide citizens a much optimised mobility that’s able to overcome the insufficiencies of the current infrastructures, the always crescent traffic congestions, the effects of pollution over public health and the growth of functional urban areas. 

Today’s rising demand for transport services to, from, and around peri-urban areas still have a very limited and unfrequent number of options, making car dependence a major concern. Technological breakthroughs are now able to tackle the main challenges related to public transport in what’s been traditionally considered the poorly-served areas of the outskirts. 

Shotl brings a technology that’s able to increase the occupancy of bus lines in areas with low frequency, as it enables a flexible service that reacts in real time to the flows of demand, avoiding the mileage and time that’s lost when vehicles run empty or circulate in areas with no passengers. 

The system is able to gather more interest as new stops can be added, bringing the vehicles closer to the users.  Implementing Shotl does not need any investment in infrastructure as transport operators and public transport authorities can rely on their current fleet of vehicles and drivers.