Over the past year there's been quite a buzz around social and healthcare (SOTE) transport services, as several regions have put their systems, dispatch services and transport out to tender.
When reading through the tender documents, I've sometimes been left wondering whether things have really been thought through to the end, in terms of either costs or service availability.
On-demand traffic operates, as the name suggests, upon request, as needed (on-demand). On-demand traffic can be considered to include, for example, taxis or ride-hailing services such as Uber and Bolt.
Vinka will deliver its Ride fleet management solution to City of Oulu. Vinka Ride will be used to manage Onni on-demand shuttle service.
The goal of Onni is to offer an accessible public transport service to citizens who are unable to use regular public transportation.
Fleet optimisation is often imagined as a magic trick, in which a mysterious algorithm solves any problem like a silver bullet – optimally, of course.
Menevä – the fastest growing taxi company in Finland – broke the news in a very positive fashion with the launch of their latest health care transportation operation in the middle of the freezing winter of Finnish Lapland. In YLE (the Finnish national broadcasting company) news (Finnish only) the focus is on the somewhat unexpected success of Menevä in Lapland.
Vinka helps iCabbi in providing booking and dispatch technology to Cabonline, the largest taxi company in the Nordics. Cabonline has 4600 vehicles serving 16 million rides annually in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. iCabbi powers 100000 taxis globally with its booking and dispatch technology.
Vinka’s fleet orchestration platform is optimising on-demand transport services for the city of Seinäjoki. The services include on-demand shuttles – open for public transport, groups transport services for schools and senior activity centres and a taxi services for special needs transportation. The service set-up is uniquely designed to match with Seinäjoki’s use cases.
Vinka has created a new, optimized, operation model for orchestrating the on-demand and para-transit services in Central Finland region. The fleet, containing more than 400 vehicles, is operated by JYTAKSI, a local regional taxi service provider and the service automation is produced in co-operation with Sitowise. The service containing on-demand transport, para-transit and various types of group transports was launched on 1st of June in the municipalities around the city of Jyväskylä.