Galway tech company partners with New York’s public transport

A Galway-based transport data specialist is to participate in a post-Covid challenge to make New York’s public transportation system safer, healthier and more responsive for commuters.

It sees CitySwift expanding its operations to North America in partnership with the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, North America’s largest public transport operator.

The Transit Tech Lab announced CitySwift as one of three winners of its Covid-19 Response Challenge, which will implement high-tech solutions across the MTA and the Port Authority for New York and New Jersey.

The TTL is a public-private initiative created by the MTA and the Partnership for New York City to bring private sector innovation to improve public transit.

And the Challenge was launched in response to the pandemic and fielded over 200 global applicants.

The companies selected demonstrated promising results after a twelve-week proof of concept, during which CitySwift fully integrated with and augmented the MTA’s existing transport data sources.

They will now scale their solutions across their respective partner agencies over a one-year pilot.

CitySwift Co-Founder and CEO Brian O’Rourke said the company was ‘incredibly excited to be helping the MTA embrace data in smart, innovative ways to improve bus services and support Covid-19 recovery in New York City’.

“As new mobility patterns emerge, there is a lot to learn from big data about changing trends and how best to plan and shape bus services for the future,” he said.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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