SWEDISH RESROBOT ALLOWS PLANNING TRIPS FROM DOOR TO DOOR ACROSS DIFFERENT MEANS OF TRANSPORT
Samtrafiken now links all trips by train, bus, subway, tram, ferry and plane of about 50 different carriers in a compact transport network for the whole of Sweden. In addition, the company, which is jointly owned by more than 30 public transport operators, supplies passengers with information on all these connections. Samtrafiken now converts the necessary information systems to HAFAS, the timetable information system developed by the German company HaCon. This will be done successively for the different regions of Sweden. The new HAFAS-based travel planner for the whole of Sweden (ResRobot) will also allow for future trips planned from door to door across different means of transport.
To this end, the Swedes received a package that includes many of the latest technological developments around HAFAS: Internet timetable information, including reachability searches and personal timetable in Print2Web process. Even tools for the production of printed timetables and the latest HAFAS Mobile versions for mobile phones and Smartphones of different manufacturers belong to the intended scope of delivery. This includes applications for mobile devices with convenient features, such as large touch screens, fast Internet connection and GPS location. The mobile operating system Android™ and the iPhone provide for all that.
Owners of an iPhone and Android phone can already download HAFAS Mobile for free in the App Store and at the Android Market. Passengers have the opportunity to have nearby stops displayed on their mobile phones. HAFAS for the Internet will go live in the next few months.
The goal of Samtrafiken is to make it easy for passengers in Sweden to opt for public transport. Samtrafiken is jointly owned by 34 carriers, including all local public transport companies as well as Arlanda Express, People Travel Group (Merresor and Flygbussarna), SJ, Svenska Tågkompaniet and Veolia Transport, BT Buss, Swebus Express, Destination Gotland and Waxholmsbolaget. The parties deliver their timetable data to Samtrafiken, who stores in a national database.
