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Alchera Bus
Insights & reporting for Local Authorities to deliver improved bus services - strategically and operationally - driven by data & analytics.
Monitoring & Evaluation
Monitor bus network performance by average journey times and speeds, including highlighting variability. Understand how punctual your routes really are against the timetable.
Satisfy DfT reporting requirements out of the box
Self-select corridors to create a more holistic view of the network
Monitor and analyse trends on the network, including patronage numbers and ticketing data
Network Improvements
Shine a light on how underlying infrastructure impacts bus networks. Surface powerful economic benefits calculations to prioritise spend on interventions while improving operational capabilities, all supported by highly granular insights.
Enable better tuning of your network, such as enhancing signal timing optimisation
Flag and alert pinch points at corridor/junction level to target prioritisation measures
Rank junctions & links, by economic or delay metrics, to highlight areas of the network most in need of attention
Turbocharge bus teams, using data to help monitor & improve the network.
Alchera Bus is a web-based software & analytics suite for bus professionals to investigate historical & real-time bus activity. Monitor, evaluate and improve bus networks. Drill into bus movements at links, junctions and corridors on the network. Find, monitor and improve the real root cause of delays.
Reporting, tailored to your needs.
Bus Punctuality
On-time performance for self-serve time periods across all your routes, by junction, corridor, route or bus operator.
Journey Time
See average speeds and journey times along individual segments, through signals, and in comparison to freeflow, on summary dashboards.
Patronage
Enhancing reporting across your network via integration directly with bus operator systems, split by ticket type and boarding location.
Pinch Point Factor
Scored pinch point factor, to understand the impact of hot spot junctions on bus reliability & speed.
Economic Benefit
TAG-compliant economic cost to support business case building for all hotspots, broken down by scheme, corridor and time of day.
Policy Datasets
Keep up with changing policy by overlaying datasets - like safety stats or emissions - to support business cases.
Award Winning Solution
2024 WINNER:
Department for Transport Chief Scientific Officer's Award: Outstanding Project Delivery
2025 WINNER:
ITS Public Transport Award
Take a more holistic view of the network
Look at bus movements alongside your other transport modes, zoomed out to the region, or in to a junction. Use the insights to hold productive conversations with colleagues, based on data - across cars, bikes, scooters and pedestrians.
Multi-modal
See your different modes in one place
Cross-team collaboration
Pay only for the resources you use
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this fulfil Department for Transport reporting requirements?
Yes.
Alchera Bus provides ready made reporting to satisfy the key KPIs required for DfT, plus a range of additional insights which will help you run your network more effectively.
Do you work with bus operators?
Yes.
Alchera can ingest data directly from bus operators, such as patronage and ticketing data. Furthermore, information can be shared back to the operators, by granting access to the Alchera Bus solution at the discretion of the local authority.
How do I procure Alchera Bus?
Alchera Bus is available on G-Cloud 13 here for public sector procurement.
Alternatively, Alchera works in the supply chain of many Tier 1 advisory and engineering firms. Reach out to find out more, about our partners, to if procurement via the supply chain of an existing framework is preferable.
Alchera can provide terms & licence agreements for private businesses.
How long does it take to get started with Alchera Bus?
From commissioning, we will have your first users gaining value from the platform within 2 weeks.
How granular is the data - minutes or weeks? metres or miles?
Data granularity ranges depending on the KPI you are looking into. Typically, we have spatial granularity down to 20m chunks of road, and temporal granularity down to minute-by-minute and hour-by-hour reporting.
Can I look beyond junctions, to links and corridors?
Yes, analytics focus from junction level information all the way to user-defined corridor exploration, to make it easy to see the impact of interventions on key routes.
What data do we need to get started?
Alchera Bus can be deployed in any region, starting immediately using open BODS data.
Through significant validated analytics, we clean and enhance BODS data in real time to ensure KPIs are reported accurately.
Additional benefits come from direct bus operator integration, which we can migrate to whenever you're ready.
Are you ready?
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