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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Introducing Ticketless
Transport without tickets We’re very excited to take the covers off of something we’ve been working hard on for a while now. Seamless, ticketless travel.
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UrbanThings at the Annual Ticketing Innovation Summit
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Annual Ticketing Innovation Summit in Lisbon, held in the luxurious surroundings of the Pestana Palace hotel. It was a hugely interesting and informative couple of days for me, focused on the transportation sector. There was access to top-flight thought leadership and some of Europe’s largest transportation operators […]
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UrbanThings Wins Contract to Manage the Bristol API
Bristol City Council awarded the contract to develop and maintain the Bristol API to UrbanThings after a successful 12-month demonstrator period.
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Bus Checker: Now More Than Just Buses
We’re expanding Bus Checker to cover trains, trams, metro and more 6 years ago, London Bus Checker became London’s first live bus times app. Gone were the days of leaving to catch a bus and praying to the gods of traffic and timetables that you wouldn’t be out in the cold for too long. 3 million […]
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The #makebristolmobile hackathon: What went down
Our 4th hackathon co-hosted with Bristol City Council was a success! Read all about some of the great ideas our hackers came up with. First things first, a huge thank you to OVO Energy for hosting us at their beautiful HQ, to Bristol City Council for running proceedings with us and, of course, everyone who […]
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Meet Sprint: Birmingham’s Bus/Tram Hybrid
Birmingham has been hard at work upgrading its transport network in preparation for HS2, and there are some exciting projects on the horizon. I sat down with Angela Hosford and Chris Lane at Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) to learn about the City’s upcoming Bus Rapid Transit service, Sprint.
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UrbanThings Announces Partnership with Ticketer
Mobile app specialists UrbanThings have recently entered into a partnership with leading ticketing platform Ticketer. The two companies will jointly develop a range of innovative mobile applications. The partnership will involve close collaboration between the two companies, with UrbanThings developing pioneering mobile apps for Ticketer with features ranging from live public transit times to intelligent journey […]
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