Category: Passenger Cloud
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New Coach and Minibus vehicle types
We received feedback that coaches and minibuses are an important part of some networks. In response, we’ve added these two vehicle types to the vehicle information in Passenger Cloud. The new coach and minibus graphics will be available on Android, iOS and the web, to help your users better identify the vehicles they are tracking. …
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Changes to Passenger Cloud menus for mobile devices
When navigating through Passenger Cloud on a desktop screen, there is a menu on the left-hand side which provides links to subpages within the current section. As an example, the “Network” page has links to “Lines”, “Operators”, “Vehicles” etc. When viewed on a mobile device, there is less screen space available and no room for…
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Improved business customer user management
In the past when a business was created in Passenger Cloud, a single Business Portal user would be created using the primary contact email address. However, there was no way to add additional users to manage the business. An update has been made to Passenger Cloud that allows business customer managers to add additional users…
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Stops now shown on coverage map draw tool
To help you create accurate coverage maps, the area draw tool now shows the stops for your network. This will help ensure that the areas are correct with the boundaries defined by the locations of the stops. The stops will only appear when zoomed in, this is to ensure the map does not try to…
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Easier to use timetable previews
After uploading a dataset to Passenger Cloud, the generated timetables can be previewed to check for any issues such as missing stops or lines. The layout of the table has been changed so that as you scroll down and across, the headings can still be seen. This makes it easier to know where you are…
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Vehicle livery colours for web and apps
We’re rolling out vehicle livery colours for the web, iOS and Android. This update adds two livery colours to the vehicle illustrations, displayed in the additional vehicle information when a user tracks them in real time. Combined with information such as the vehicle type and vehicle name, it will help give users the confidence they…
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Disruptions improvements
Alongside recent improvements to streamline Passenger Cloud’s interface and make it easier to create ticket products, we’ve also been focusing on the Disruptions area of Passenger Cloud. These improvements are updates to the User Interface rather than changes to any of the underlying functionality. They include tidier tables for listing Disruptions and clearer labelling and…
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Vehicle types and names on the web
We’ve released a number of updates to the web that incorporate the latest updates from mobile, as well as adding some new features. Vehicle names The vehicle information header now incorporates the line colour – designed to help make it clearer which line this vehicle is running on. Above the vehicle image, we show the…
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Ticket creation improvements
A few weeks ago we launched the first of a set of updates to streamline Passenger Cloud’s interface. The next section we’ve been focusing on is how tickets are created. This includes layout improvements to make best use of the screen space, plus new page titles and section labels to ensure each step in the…
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Enhanced Vehicle Information with passenger occupancy from crowdsourced and ETM data – websites
Our new Enhanced Vehicle Information has been rolling out over the last week to Passenger websites with Live Buses enabled. It has been designed to help users to understand more about the bus that’s on its way, by providing them with more information than has previously been available to them. This includes payment options accepted…