powering intelligent mobility
We build award-winning transit apps and revolutionary m-Ticketing solutions.
Mobile Apps
We specialise in building award-winning mobile transit apps across all major platforms. Find out how we can help you bring yours to market.
m-Ticketing Solutions
Our innovative mobile ticketing products are rolling out to bus passengers throughout the United Kingdom. We can help to cut your costs and put account-based ticketing into your passengers’ hands.
urbanthings API
The urbanthings API is a robust, REST-based API that powers millions of commuter journeys each month. Bristol City Council have used it to publish a wealth of transport data - it could power your applications too.
Beautiful mobile apps to empower travellers worldwide.
Millions of travellers have downloaded our transit apps across all major platforms. We've won awards and received great reviews.
Successful products like UK Bus Checker and ZipTrip offer realtime transit data, flexible m-Ticketing and integrated journey planning, backed by proven UI/UX expertise.
We offer white-label and bespoke versions of our apps; tailored to reflect your brand and product. Contact us to find out how you can get affordable apps that are truly first class.
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A mobile ticketing system to delight passengers
Discover our end-to-end mobile ticketing solution and unlock the benefits of account-based travel with an unrivalled cloud-based back office.
Our innovative m-Ticketing solution is ideal for both young and established transport operators. A high quality app with integrated RTI, journey planning and QR / NFC or Bluetooth ticketing will delight your passengers. Meanwhile, our robust back office solution allows you full control over flexible ticketing and is capable of generating advanced operational insights including live occupancy data, detailed CRM profiles, real-time fleet telemetry and much more.
On board, either integrate our services with your existing NFC smart card system, or take a step into the future with OpenTicket, our innovative government-backed Bluetooth solution. Using active beacon technology, your customers will never have to tap in or out again.
Get in touch to discover how you can upgrade your ticketing experience.
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A scalable Smart City Platform to meet your needs
The UrbanThings API delivers smart city data to more than a million devices each month, including our popular Bus Checker apps.
We provide a white-label solution that allows you to open up your data to developers on a free or revenue-share basis via an automated portal and fully configurable endpoints. See how Bristol Council have integrated with our solution to allow developers access to their transport and smart city data.
A fast, robust REST-based API that provides static transit data, RTI, place/POI lookup and resource availability. Built on reliable scaling infrastructure to cope with peak demand.
Integrate your city or organisation with our API and make your data work harder.
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The Hex Tag
This week at a transport conference in Berlin, UrbanThings CEO Carl Partridge unveiled the Hex Tag to operators from Europe and further afield. This represents the first public outing of a core technology innovation behind Ticketless. A Hex Tag is a 3-in-1 combination of NFC, QR and Bluetooth used to uniquely identify a vehicle. […]
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Why Bluetooth Refuses to Die
And why we think it should live forever… Bluetooth. Remembered fondly by many for its part in sharing polyphonic ringtones in the schoolyard. Or perhaps for making the headset an integral part of businessperson chic. Bluetooth underwent a sort of gold rush between the tech hitting its first consumer devices in 2000 and its first […]
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The UrbanThings dashboard: Our in-house agile assistant
When working in a small team, sometimes there’s no getting around the fact that only so much can be done simultaneously. Having a single job can be a luxury, and quiet spells are few and far between. In this kind of environment, it’s important to have key information available at a glance, and a number […]
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Ticketless Makes it to the Silver Screen
Because if a picture is 1000 words, 1000 pictures… The keen-eyed among you may have noticed the fancy new header on the Ticketless website. We put together a short video showing Ticketless in action to give a quick rundown of how operators can use the tech to take the fuss out of transport. Check it […]
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