Esoterix Systems Limited

Crowding Alerts Technology (CAT) will conduct industrial research into using AI to update train crowding predictions in response to on-the-day events, delays, and disruption. Ultimately, it will help passengers make better informed choices about their travel. The vision is of a service which forewarns passengers of unusual crowding spikes through both pul...

People like to travel by train. The railway network delivers double the number of passenger journeys and passenger kilometres it did 20 years ago, growth which has outperformed external drivers such as population growth. However, the rail network is constrained. Additional rolling stock and infrastructure are both expensive and slow to deliver. To attract...

MODLE (The Mobility on Demand Laboratory Environment) will develop, test, and refine a new transport service that combines the convenience of point-to-point journeys with the environmental and cost benefits of shared use. Think of it as a taxi-bus, intelligently routed by real-time and predicted demand. Ultimately the service will usurp the car as the con...

A citizen rarely finds bus, rail and/or health service provisions seamlessly aligned: scheduled bus services do not provide sufficiently direct door-to-door journeys, e.g. between railway stations and final destinations, or at the needed times, e.g. to make a train connection or hospital appointment. The result in the north and west of Bristol is an over-...

The need for a transport system which uses on-demand routing arises principally from the shortcomings of the current options available for local journeys. The average Briton makes 821 trips of below 10 miles annually (National Travel Survey: 2008) with the realistic choices of transport (outside London) being: • Walking/Cycling. However, this is slow, imp...