Small, Medium, or Large
This Boston-based transit agency recently signed with Swiftly to update its real-time data
What is large? (MBTA)
This type of telecommunication is the most used form of getting in touch with customer service teams at smaller transit agencies.
What is the phone?
Field supervisors at SEPTA (Philadelphia, PA) are using this Swiftly module to follow the movements of their fleet.
What is the Live Map?
What are cruise ship passengers? (Not accepted: Tourists, must be more specific)
This process got its name when runs were physically cut and pasted together to create the schedule.
What is runcutting?
Real-time maps are 60x more accurate with refresh intervals that are 10 seconds, down from 10 minutes at this South Carolina agency
What is medium? (CARTA)
What is the radio?
This Maryland agency is proactively slowing down vehicles that are running "hot" to keep vehicles evenly spaced going into downtown during AM Peak
What is MTA?
Nine years ago, this agency proposed thirty-four miles of dedicated bus lanes at a cost of $230 million. The plan was shelved. With Swiftly, they have broken it up into bite-sized TSP projects.
What is VTA?
Another term for frequency: the length of time between two buses.
What is headway?
What is large? (VTA)
This real-time mobile app is the official app backed by Swiftly for transit agencies to use.
What is Transit?
These types of mobile devices are sometimes used by field supervisors to run Swiftly.
What are tablets? (Accepted: iPads)
This Texas agency found a way to save a bus by operating the same level of service on Saturday and Sunday without affecting operating budget.
What is VIA (San Antonio)?
This phenomenon where several buses come to a stop at once often contributes to late buses
What is bunching?
This agency in cowboy country services the Univ of North Texas.
What is medium? (Denton)
In Denton, TX, these types of calls have decreased from 10 minutes to under 3 minutes year over year since using Swiftly.
What are ‘Where’s the bus?’ calls?
A UCF rider complained that driver stopped at this store for over 5 minutes. A field supervisor used Swiftly to investigate and confronted the driver, who admitted it.
What is Walgreens?
RTD did this type of project but didn't know the result. With Swiftly, they conducted a before-and-after analysis of speed changes. (It was a 20% improvement.)
What is a bus-only lane? (Accepted: devoted bus lane; bus-priority lane)
This Oregon agency overhauled their schedules by finding bottlenecks along routes that commonly put drivers behind schedule.
What is Tillamook?
SFMTA is this size
What is large?
In Tillamook, OR, call volume has decreased by this percentage year over year.
What is 90%
DART (Dallas, TX) couldn't see these two things on the same screen to manage connections. Swiftly helped interdepartmental communication to unify them.
What are bus and rail?
In Baltimore, run times along affected corridors have dropped by this much during peak hours since installing signal priority.
What is 20 percent?
SEPTA suburban schedulers are using this Swiftly module to reschedule their service based on 100% trip sample. Before they had to rely on APCs which had less than 3% coverage.
What is Run-Times?