The Optibus Blog

Thoughts about scheduling, planning, mass transit, technology, algorithms and more.

Winning Back Riders in the Aftermath of COVID-19

Vaccinations have started rolling out and in some parts of the world, life has gradually begun returning to a semblance...

Optibus and Liftango Partner to Deliver Integrated Fixed-Route and On-Demand Transport Platform

Optibus and Liftango partnership delivers integrated fixed-route and on-demand bus platforms to clients across APAC

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Hitachi Europe and Optibus Partner to Decarbonise Bus Fleets

Hitachi Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., and Optibus, a next-generation mobility platform provider...

Optibus’ advisory board welcomes digital transformation expert and former Go-Ahead Group CIO Enrique Fernandez-Pino

Optibus is honored to announce the latest member of its advisory board: Enrique Fernandez-Pino, a leader in digital...

Handling Burst Scale-Out With ‘Function as a Service’

At Optibus, we’ve created a cloud-based platform that solves the very challenging problem of planning and scheduling...

Continuous Deployment in Mission-Critical Enterprise SaaS Software

Continuous deployment in mission-critical enterprise SaaS software sounds scary, right? How do you make sure (as much...

Grupo Ruiz Using AI Platform Optibus to Provide More Agile Transport Networks in Post-Pandemic ‘New Normal’

Grupo Ruiz is using cloud-native AI platform Optibus to optimize its transport service in the post-COVID new normal,...

Optibus Raises $107 Million and Launches Geospatial Suite to Help Cities Shape the Future of Urban Mobility

Optibus, the cloud-native AI platform for planning and operating mass transportation, announced today that it has...

Stagecoach, the UK’s Largest Bus and Coach Operator, Partners with AI Platform Optibus to Help Plan the Bus Networks of the Future

Stagecoach, Britain’s biggest bus, coach and tram operator, has announced a major technological partnership that will...

Deutsche Bahn Subsidiary ioki Partners With Optibus to Help Integrate Fixed-Route and On-Demand Transportation in Europe

Optibus Joins Open Transit Initiative to Work Together on Agile Transit Ecosystem

Optibus is committed to bringing cloud-centered technology in an open data platform to the mass transportation industry...

What the Biden Administration Means for the U.S. Transportation Industry

Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who ran against Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential...

Even With COVID-19, We Still Managed To Take This Road Trip

2020 will primarily be remembered as the year of the global pandemic – but here at Optibus we’ve used our time in (and...

Introducing Roster (Rota) Cycle Optimization

We’ve recently released roster cycle optimization, a feature we’re truly pleased with and that was developed in close...