Media release
Brussels, March 26, 2019 – Ptolemus Consulting Group, strategic advisory firm renowned for their expertise in mobility ecosystems, published their ranking of two categories of ‘mobtechs’ or mobility platform providers. In the category of Mobility Platform Providers (MPPs), which aggregate multiple operators and modes on their platform, SkedGo was ranked best provider.
“SkedGo stood out in our Mobility Platform Provider research, not only for its long market experience, but also its ability to scale its partnership strategy. It has successfully integrated a very large number of transport operators in cities all over the world”.
Frederic Bruneteau, Managing Director, PTOLEMUS Consulting Group
The international software developer with HQ in Australia came ahead of Fluidtime, Moovit, Siemens, Cubic, A-to-Be, Moovel/Reach Now and Optimile.
“This is excellent recognition for all the hard and smart work our team has put in over the years. A lot of companies now say they offer multi and mixed modal routing, but we are still the only business in the market allowing for the combination of ALL transport modes – private, public and commercial – into sensible, personalised trip chains.
It’s great to see this has been validated externally and the smart people at Ptolemus have picked up on it.”
Claus von Hessberg, Founder and CEO of SkedGo
Factors underlying the ranking included:
- The company’s experience and length of time in the market,
- The scalability and geographical reach of their solution,
- The number of operators they have integrated into their solution.
SkedGo has ten years of routing expertise and clients span across Australia, Europe and North America. To date, over 3000 transport service providers of all types and sizes have been integrated into the platform.
About SkedGo
SkedGo was started in 2009 by three founders with previous successful exits and has offices in Australia (HQ), Vietnam, Argentina, Germany, Finland and the UK.
SkedGo provides personalised trip planning and mobility as a service technology, for leading start-ups, corporations, and governments. Their senior developer team offers tailored solutions leveraging the TripGo API. The result: organisations can seamlessly and rapidly integrate mixed/multi model transport services, parking, book & pay features, events and itineraries.
CEO and founder Claus von Hessberg started SkedGo to address social and environmental challenges, with focus on Mobility as a Service and transportation. He was nominated as one of the Top Ten Mobility as a Service Influencers by industry publication BusinessMaaS. CTO and Co-founder Adrian Schoenig leads the development teams at SkedGo. He has a background in information systems and computer science, with a major in artificial intelligence. Co-founder Dr Tim Cooper holds a PhD in Computer Science from Sydney University. He runs several successful businesses in the tech space.
European industry body MaaS Alliance recently accepted the TripGo API as blueprint for a standard interface for MaaS journey planning websites and mobile applications. In 2016, TripGo spin-off RioGo won the official Rio Olympic City Transport challenge for the Olympic games. SkedGo was named Gartner Cool Vendor for Smart Cities Applications and Solutions in 2017.
Also in 2017, SkedGo won the Smart Cities & Accessibility Challenge run by the NSW Department of Finance, Service and Innovation with Transport for NSW and Slingshot to include more features for wheelchair users. In 2018, TripGo was named ‘Best Smartphone App’ by industry publication BMaaS. Global consulting group Ptolemus recognised SkedGo as No. 1 Global Mobility Platform Provider in 2019.
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