Trapeze Blog

Accurate driver payment is of critical importance – but what can we do to improve it? To answer that question, we invited First Group’s top allocation experts Wilf Duke and Darren Senft to join us for an online driver payment workshop. This entertaining session covered..

Can you honestly say you know your drivers are paid the right amount each month?

We at Trapeze have been considering the issue of costly ‘No Shows’ in Demand Responsive Transport (DRT). In exploring this problem we considered related sectors, and found a fascinating piece of research from the National Health Service that we thought we would share..

In many ways last week’s Coach & Bus UK 2017 offered few surprises – yet was no less rewarding for all that. We were very pleased to find validation of the challenges and trends we see in the industry – and enthusiasm for technology’s potential to address them.

The end of the summer holidays tends to signal groans from children facing a return to school, but for many transport authority staff it simply represents a continuation of the pain that is schools transport management.

One of the more interesting recent transport technology developments is the rise of virtual driver training, which creates an online portal through which drivers can virtually ‘drive’ routes, using available data – from telematics, schedules, route incidents and so on..

Bus service accessibility for visually impaired passengers is a key topic of concern within the sector, so we were delighted when Ben Howlett (pictured centre with Paul Everson, Trapeze Product manager and Darren Turpin, Trapeze UK Marketing Manager), Conservative..

What is Traffic Light Priority?

Traffic Light Priority (TLP) reduces the impact of congestion by offering buses priority through junctions. This helps to promote modal shift by improving the speed of bus services relative to private vehicles. Furthermore, local..

Those of you who use NOVUS FX or NOVUS RT will be interested in new developments on your products. Quite literally new developments as NOVUS FX v5 is now available and NOVUS RT v5 will be available tomorrow.