New Journey Planner and Booking System for Wales

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TfW has awarded Hitachi a contract to provide a journey planner for Welsh transport, covering all modes including rail.

Hitachi to develop multimodal journey planning and booking system for Wales

UK: Transport for Wales has awarded Hitachi a contract to provide a bespoke Mobility-as-a-Service digital planning and booking system covering public transport in Wales. The app and back-office will cover rail, local bus, TrawsCymru regional bus and Fflecsi demand-responsive bus services, as...

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Transport for Wales has awarded Hitachi a contract to provide a bespoke Mobility-as-a-Service digital planning and booking system covering public transport in Wales.
The app and back-office will cover rail, local bus, TrawsCymru regional bus and Fflecsi demand-responsive bus services, as well as micromobility bikes and e-scooters and other demand-based mobility options. While many existing MaaS deployments elsewhere focus on cities, the TfW system will also include rural areas. It will also include cross-border services into England.
The contract is worth £2·59m over five years, with an option for a two-year extension.

This exciting and ambitious project will deliver a digital solution that will help our customers plan point-to-point journeys using different modes of public transport’, said TfW Chief Customer & Culture Officer Marie Daly on September 11.
‘It’s all part of our longer-term plans and aspirations to provide our customers with one network, one timetable and one ticket.’

My bold.
I'd love to know how this fits in with GBR and its intention to integrate rail ticketing and fares across the UK.
The proposed system looks to be based on work by Thales (acquired by Hitachi) and applications in Japan and Italy.

This existing thread also covers another aspect of TfW's independent ticketing policy.

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[nwales58]

Hope the spec includes realtime information during the journey and advising alternatives when bus connections fail (we have WG-owned ticket machines in even small operators' vehicles so near-universal real time position data). At present, bustimes map is the only way I know to see whether connections at Betws y Coed, Dolgellau, Corwen and so on have waited or already left.

Some of the italian regional systems are crap. Don't know whether Thales run Unico Campania but it is often authoritatively wrong with both working day and holiday times presented regardless of day, an operator missing, out of date stop locations and so on.

 

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I hope it is a little more user friendly. I really don't need to know that it takes 1 minute to walk from Aberystwyth Bus Station (unspecified location therein) to Aberystwyth Bus Station Stand One. Just give me scheduled departure times please. Perhaps I'll need to visit the loo and buy a newspaper, but obviously I'm too thick to work out for myself how long either or both of those may take, perhaps the journey planner should include that too (sarcasm alert).