Category: Web apps
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Spring 2023 Quality of Life Improvements
To ensure the continued quality of the platform we regularly make small updates across the websites, apps and Passenger Cloud to improve performance, user experience or for any other quality of life enhancement. To keep you up to date with these changes we will periodically provide a summary, such as this one. For the more…
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Introducing Service Categories
To make it quicker for riders to find services that operate within a particular location or for a particular purpose, operators will soon be able to arrange lines and services into one or many categories. A category can be used to represent any logical grouping of lines. For example, operators can create a category to…
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Introducing animated graphics on websites
Beyond decorative benefits, the use of animations in the user experience can increase delight by providing a sense of motion as the user completes their goal, and can call attention to elements that may otherwise be missed. As such, we have started to animate some of the graphics a user sees throughout the website. We…
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Migrating Google Analytics for websites to GA4
From Monday, February 13th 2023 we are going to start changing how usage data is recorded in Google Analytics (GA) for operator websites. For operators with a Passenger app and website, we are going to create a new web stream within the GA property used for tracking app usage and start sending website usage data…
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Showing ticket activation expiry in gift code emails
We are releasing a change that adds a ticket’s activation expiry information to gift code emails so that the recipient of the email understands when a ticket needs to be activated before they redeem the gift code. This email is sent when a customer purchases a ticket as a gift for someone else and also…
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Improving network visibility at wider zooms
As networks get larger, offer more options and attract more users, it’s important to ensure that riders can quickly understand the areas and routes covered when planning their journeys. To this end, we will now start showing bus stops and micro-mobility stations at wider zoom levels, where they were previously hidden. Bus stops will now…
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Expanding the availability of dynamic vehicle destinations
To provide more riders with visibility of the destination of a vehicle and align with departure information at a stop, we have expanded and enhanced the use of destination information for tracked vehicles. Available within the vehicle information from the Explore and other map views, we have completed a series of improvements to the way…
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Customising activation expiry on tickets and supporting the Bus Fare Cap Grant scheme
We are adding the ability to customise the activation expiry period for tickets so that operators can accommodate the changing travel habits of their customers. For example, this will enable flexible carnets, and support time-based marketing initiatives promoting certain tickets. This release also means that operators who are participating in the DfT backed Bus Fare…
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Promoting job vacancies on homepages and Google search
As part of our continued efforts to support recruitment activities across the industry, we’re releasing two new improvements to help you promote vacancies on your website and across the web at large – homepage banners and integration with Google job searches. Homepage promotional banners You can now create a banner to promote open vacancies directly…
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Adding ticket information to gift code emails
We’re pleased to be releasing a change that has been long requested that allows recipients of gifted tickets to know exactly which ticket they have been gifted. We are doing this by adding ticket information to the email that is sent to the gift code recipient. This email is sent when a customer purchases a…