Case studies
1. Offering commuters an alternative to driving
PLACE: Ribera del Loira Business Park (Madrid, Spain)
CHALLENGE: Located in the suburban area of Madrid, it hosts 400 companies and 15,000 workers. Although it has underground, most opt for the car. As a consequence, the business park suffers from significant traffic jams on a daily basis, and there is extreme difficulty in finding parking.
SKYBUS SOLUTION: A smart and customized transport network for the business park. It connects our clients' offices with the main public transport nodes of Madrid (10 of 11 Metro lines, 9 of 9 commuter rail lines and 5 major interurban bus exchanges). Supervised by the City Council and the Regional Transport Authority of Madrid, the Skybus service is provided by four operators with a fleet of 8 vehicles.
ADVANTAGES: The digitalized and automated management of demand thanks to the Skybus SaaS system allows to optimize the routes and apply a pay-per-passenger fares to each client company, which can offer a wide range of connections to its employees, in multiple schedules, and regardless of its size.
2. Giving coverage to more citizens
PLACE: Lavasa (Maharashtra, India)
CHALLENGE: The first Smart City in India is a new development with a compact urban center next to the lake, and residential areas scattered over the hills. Lavasa wants to minimize traffic to preserve and leverage the natural values that make this pure and idyllic environment unique.
SKYBUS SOLUTION: Skybus has created and launched "Lavasa e-bus", an on-demand transport service with 150 stops and 30 smart microbuses, connecting the residential areas of the hills with the urban center and the inter-city lines of Lavasa.
ADVANTAGES: Lavasa e-bus allows residents and tourists to forget about the car to move with full flexibility and convenience around the new city. Thanks to it, Lavasa is free of traffic, pollution, noise and stress.
3. Optimizing services in low-demand areas
PLACE: Orihuela (Alicante, Spain)
CHALLENGE: With 100,000 inhabitants, Orihuela has magnificent beaches, large residential areas and important seasonal fluctuations of population and tourists. In high season, the public transport of Orihuela is overwhelmed, insufficient to reach everywhere. In the low season, it is underutilized, with vehicles wandering empty across dessertic neighborhoods.
SKYBUS SOLUTION: Skybus has carried out an analysis of the demand and its variations throughout the year, and designed a new public transport network that allows flexible adaptation of supply to demand.
ADVANTAGES: The conclusions of this project show that the application of Skybus SaaS to the current Orihuela Costa fleet would increase its coverage by 30% and double its frequency.
4. Feeding the fixed public transport network
PLACE: Metropolitan Area of Zaragoza (Spain)
CHALLENGE: The new line of RENFE commuter rail between Zaragoza and Casetas has profoundly modified the public transport offering in the area, making necessary a reorganization so that train and bus complement each other instead of competing with each other.
SKYBUS SOLUTION: Skybus has carried out a demand analysis, and has designed, simulated and evaluated three different train + bus modal integration scenarios. The low demand levels in 60% of the stops in the area leads to the conclusion conclude that a mixed service of fixed lines with on-demand feeders is the most efficient and, at the same time, most effective solution.
ADVANTAGES: The solution with on-demand feeders allows faster travel and better coverage of the area, making the most of both the commuter railway and the deployed bus fleet.
5. Diversifying the transport offering for different population groups
PLACE: CoachHire.com (London, United Kingdom)
CHALLENGE: Optimize existing school bus routes to accommodate new course passengers in the existing fleet. Throughout the course, allow a more agile and dynamic use of the school routes by students.
SKYBUS SOLUTION: Using Skybus SaaS optimized route planning technology, we have designed routes with 20% more occupancy, respecting the maximum authorized journey times. In addition, the operator can use the same Skybus platform, outside of school schedules, to manage special needs transport for people with reduced mobility. This type of transportation requires greater flexibility and customization, albeit at a higher cost per passenger. The same Skybus SaaS system allows managing both types of service, aimed at different groups, in an automated, optimized and dynamic way.
ADVANTAGES: Thanks to a higher occupancy of the vehicles, greater productivity of the fleet and a lower cost per route are achieved, which allows attracting more passengers and developing the operator's business. Passengers have more flexibility to reserve when they wish. Operations managemente and invoicing can be done in a completely uniform, automatic and reliable way.