UrbanThings partners with MaaS specialist SkedGo
Transport technology specialist UrbanThings and Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) company SkedGo are announcing their strategic partnership.
The partnership will combine SkedGo’s expertise in journey planning with UrbanThings’ experience in ticketing and real-time information to support operators and cities with access to a deeper level of configuration for their journey planning offerings. As well as promoting the availability of operator’s services, this is intended to help encourage sustainable travel options with better routes, taking into account customers’ travel preferences and habits.
UrbanThings expects the partnership will give it a much richer set of journey-planning capabilities and empower their passenger app users.
“Working with SkedGo will supercharge our journey planning offering” – Guy Sutherland, Head of Bids and Partnerships at UrbanThings
Guy Sutherland, Head of Bids and Partnerships at UrbanThings, said: “Working with SkedGo will supercharge our journey planning offering. This enhancement will allow us to provide much more sophisticated preference-based journey plans to simplify the customer experience and improve the visibility of how their preferred operators can provide a sustainable and convenient travel choice with a journey that suits them. I’m really excited to see the real everyday benefits passengers will feel from this partnership.”
“Our collaboration with UrbanThings is a testament to the empowering relationship between account-based ticketing and advanced journey planning capabilities” – Joshua Biondi, Business Development Manager Europe at SkedGo
Joshua Biondi, Business Development Manager Europe at SkedGo, said: “Our collaboration with UrbanThings is a testament to the empowering relationship between account-based ticketing and advanced journey planning capabilities. We bring our respective expertise and technology together within a seamlessly integrated solution, to create a best-in-class plan, book and pay mobility experience. This will empower users to make more informed and ultimately more sustainable travel decisions and reflects our own commitment to sustainable transport.”