Belleville Transit On-Demand Night Bus Pilot Made Permanent by City Council

Belleville Transit has been testing on-demand transit software for its night time bus service for four
months, now it has been made a normal part of conventional service.

Toronto, Canada, January 30, 2019 --(PR.com)-- On January 14th Belleville City Council voted to make
Belleville Transit's late-night Route 11 bus service pilot a permanent part of transit operations. According
to Quinte News, the city allocated $220,000 and made two new vehicle operator positions. This is a
culmination of a transit experiment that started five months ago. The pilot began in 2018 as a night time
service operating between 9 PM - 12:30 AM where transit riders have access to a rider portal, allowing
them to book bus trips on demand or in advance from any device that has internet connection. Belleville
buses no longer stayed on fixed routes during that time period but instead travelled between bus stops
based on rider demand.

So far the new service has seen ridership growth of 300%, over 2700 people have signed up and made
accounts in the new app with a further 1033 anonymous accounts made. The Belleville's council
congratulated transit manager Paul Buck for the ongoing success of the pilot and comments highlighted
how the on-demand service has made it easier for workers and students to get around the entire city of
Belleville during the late night. The on-time percentage of the service has been 94%.

Pantonium is the technology company behind the application and provider of the cloud based artificial
intelligence that controls when and where Belleville's night buses go. Pantonium's CEO Remi Desa has
this to say about the effectiveness of the new service: “By freeing the buses from fixed routes and
servicing only where riders wanted to go, the system services over 30 people per hour on a rural night bus
route - a figure in line with daytime urban ridership on New York City buses.”

Going into 2019 Pantonium and Belleville Transit are partnering with universities and research
institutions to use the data generated by the service to discover the impacts on ridership, car usage and
social mobility. Pantonium is also looking to expand the use of on-demand transit software to other
municipalities in North America.

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