Transport for Wales Unveils New TrawsCymru App
Transport for Wales has launched a brand new app for its Traws Cymru lengthy distance bus community that may make it simpler for individuals to journey by public transport.
The brand new app will assist prospects with journey planning, bus timetables and can present them with dwell automobile monitoring choices, to allow them to examine the place their bus is on the community. It should additionally provide cell app ticketing, offering digital entry to TrawsCymru providers and show the carbon financial savings made by selecting to journey by bus.
By way of offering clearer info on a extra accessible digital platform, the app will help Welsh Authorities’s purpose of attaining a bus system that reinforces social fairness and is able to delivering the size of modal shift wanted to fight the local weather emergency.
TrawsCymru is an integral a part of the bus community in Wales, offering hyperlinks between main cities and cities and serving to individuals connect with work, schooling, well being and leisure locations. Over the subsequent few years, Transport for Wales shall be introducing enhancements to the community, low carbon autos, integration of TrawsCymru and rail ticketing and bettering roadside infrastructure and knowledge for passengers.
The app is being created by Passenger and obtainable on the App Retailer and Google Play. Will probably be complemented by a brand new TrawsCymru web site launching this autumn.
James Value, Chief Government at Transport for Wales added:
“Our new app and web site for TrawsCymru characterize a big milestone in our plans to rework and enhance public transport in Wales, as we glance to create a community which appeals to a a lot wider demographic.
“Our objective is to progress the Welsh authorities’s imaginative and prescient of a secure, easy-to-use community of bus providers that totally connects to different strategies of public transport. We need to present a dependable, reasonably priced, versatile and low-carbon transport community that helps extra individuals to make use of the bus as an alternative of their vehicles – and our new TrawsCymru app and web site will complement our ongoing efforts”.
