Great News from Styria!
We would like to congratulate our long-standing customer, the Transport Authority of Styria (VSTG), for their win at this year’s VCÖ Mobility Award for Austria!
The VSTG impressed by implementing statewide protected connections for regional buses, a groundbreaking digital project that significantly boosts reliability for regional transport. In effect, buses wait for other delayed services or vehicles, an innovation that has greatly contributed to more passenger satisfaction and steadily reduced complaints about missed connections. Over 90% of defined connections were properly protected during the test phase.
Our Contribution: Precision Planning and Interoperability
Good connections are fundamental to public transport, yet their planning is complex. If a trip is moved, one connection improves while two others suffer – or the vehicle blocks become less cost-effective (operationally inefficient).
Our DIVA Planning System Solves This Challenge
- Evaluation and visualization: when a timetable changes, DIVA evaluates all connections and visualizes their quality according to the “traffic light principle” (Red-Yellow-Green).
- Basis for protected connections: the plan specifies which connections are to be protected by control centers – in other words, a control center delays the departure of the vehicle for the ongoing trip.
Interoperability Thanks To VDV Standards
Standardized provision of planning data is crucial due to the different control centers that are involved in the network area, and their need to effectively communicate with each other:
- Metadata exchange: the information about which connections, stops and routes must be secured (metadata), come from DIVA.
- Interface and service: we make these data available via the VDV interface VDV 4528 ANSDEF. Online provision via the is provided by the MENTZ Service Host from the EFA environment. They are supplied online using the subscription procedure standardized in VDV 453, which is provided by the MENTZ service host from an EFA environment.
We are pleased to have contributed to the win with our highly-complex and technical work.
A well-deserved award for the future of mobility in both urban and rural spaces. Find out more about the winning project using the links below (both in German):