Category: Web apps
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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…
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Improving timetable usability on mobile web
To make it clearer to customers that they can change the direction, stops and date of a timetable when viewing on web using a mobile device, we will now show the timetable controls all the time, rather than requiring the customer to expand them first. Additionally, we have made visual updates to make it cleaner,…
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Improvements to the display of Network Changes and Disruptions on web
Following the recent release of planned network change notices, we’re updating the way we display network change and disruption notices on the line list and line details pages on web. The line list now displays each line as a card, making it clearer what notices are related to that line. Network changes are now displayed…
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Improvements to ticket activation expiry
We are continuing to work on improving the information we display on tickets to make it easier for customers to quickly understand important ticket information. Last month, we released an update adding ‘Use before’ dates to tickets in a customer’s list of purchased tickets. Based on user feedback from that release we are now making…
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Enhanced job vacancy pages to support recruitment campaigns
To help with the recruitment of drivers and other roles, we are enhancing the fields and layout of job vacancy pages in the CMS to improve the application process. Job vacancy pages will now offer additional fields to represent the working location of the role, the closing date for applications, and a link to the…
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Improvements to the app promotion page
We have been refreshing the design of the mobile app promotion page on operator websites to improve how well they promote mobile apps. To give customers the confidence they have installed the correct app on their mobile device we have made some changes to the top section of the page. It now shows three phone…