TRC launches campus division, powering academic and corporate campuses with responsive and on-demand shuttle service
June 6, 2023 – New York, New York, USA: The Routing Company (“TRC”), a global on-demand vehicle routing and management platform partnering with cities to power the future of public transit, today introduced its new campus division. TRC’s on-demand solutions for campus transportation are designed to directly benefit academic and corporate campus riders.
TRC’s university, secondary school, and corporate campus solutions include Pingo Campus™, Pingo Journey™, Pingo Venues™, and Transit Connect™.
Pingo Campus™ is TRC’s custom-built offering for campuses. Launched in late 2022, the feature contains the same user interface as TRC’s Ride Pingo™ app while integrating constraints optimized for shuttle use. This includes greater fixed and flex route options, and heightened security features that meet rigorous academic and corporate privacy requirements.
Most notably, Pingo Campus™ is ideal for shuttle operation: it allows riders to track available shuttles in a specified area in real time, utilizes Pingo Journey™ to find other public transit options and plan onward multimodal transit journeys, and integrates Transit Connect™ to link riders to core mobility hubs.
TRC’s recent campus and shuttle deployments include Virginia Commonwealth University, Iowa’s CyRide, Maryland’s Bethesda Urban Partnership, a large Netherlands-based employer, and three additional private deployments spanning corporate and academic campus shuttle services.
“Pingo Campus has proven to be a powerful solution for academic and corporate campus transit operators spanning North America and Europe, namely in the deployment of responsive shuttle services,” said James Cox, Chief Executive Officer, TRC. “Not only does this feature improve mobility on campuses, it lends a safer, more flexible, and more efficient rider experience with on-demand shuttle capabilities and guaranteed connections to onward transit journeys.”
Launched in October 2022, Pingo Journey™ integrates TRC’s real-time routing technology with public transport infrastructure, allowing riders to hail on-demand transport rides and plan multimodal transport journeys — all from the single Ride Pingo app. The feature makes Pingo the world’s only app offering on-demand transport and end-to-end journey planning in one place.
Transit Connect™ uses real-time data to guarantee transit connections for riders. The innovation stemmed from TRC’s partnership with King County Metro (in a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy), where there was a recognized need to improve rider experience and connect to public transit. As a result, TRC developed Transit Connect™ to guarantee onward transit connections with 99.5% on-time performance.
Pingo Venues™ is a feature within the Pingo platform used to route drivers and riders to convenient pickup and dropoff locations. It empowers fleet managers to route all requests to specific points within a service area, giving them a new level of control over land usage.
To learn more about TRC’s campus solutions, join its Pingo Campus™ webinar on Tuesday, June 20 at 1:00pm EST. Details and registration are available at pingocampus.eventbrite.com.
TRC’s Pingo platform includes the Drive Pingo™ and Ride Pingo™ apps and the Pingo Dashboard™ operations management tool, which together provide on-demand, paratransit, fixed, and flexible transport that enhances ridership of existing transport networks. Pingo has moved over 300,000 passengers to date.
To learn more, visit theroutingcompany.com/products.
About TRC
Founded by MIT researchers and rideshare industry veterans, TRC is a global on-demand vehicle routing and management platform that partners with cities to power the future of public transport. Leveraging proprietary and unrivaled artificial intelligence, TRC delivers routing from multiple points of demand to one vehicle while enabling greater transport equity, accessibility, cost efficiency, and sustainability. Its leading product, the Pingo™ app, offers on-demand or advance trip requests and can operate in on-demand, flex, fixed, or paratransit mode.
With a team spanning nine countries, TRC directly supports international operations and customer growth through hubs in Australia, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Learn more at theroutingcompany.com.
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