This is what we've been up to lately…
Bedford Borough Council invests in Kizoom Vision
10 May 2010
Bedford Borough Council is rolling out Kizoom Vision, a powerful content distribution and scheduling system to improve the delivery of travel information in and around Bedford. The Council are committed to providing reliable location specific information to both citizens and visitors of Bedford.
Phase 1 will see Kizoom Vision manage a network of Smart Screens that will be installed in new bus shelters along the Cambridge Road. Passengers will be provided with real-time and scheduled bus departures, as well as local area information and public service announcements.
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Kizoom launches MyBus - the new iPhone app
23 March 2010
MyBus is a brand new bus, tram and taxi information app for the iPhone. MyBus shows forthcoming buses at a glance from every stop in Great Britain.
Kizoom Smart Point featured in "Vision and Values in Design Management"
04 January 2010
We are proud to have Smart Point included as a Design Agaist Crime case study in "Vision and Values in Design Management" by Prof. David Hants published by AVA Academia for its Design Management series. The book also includes an interview with Peter Quinlan, our Head of Product Design and Delivery, who talks about importance of design for Kizoom, and the ideas and processes behind creating the Smart Point.
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The rapid growth of the mobile phone as a travel planning tool
04 December 2009
Kizoom's Tim Johnson looks at how the humble mobile phone has evolved to become the definitive travel tool; a universal technology driven as much by smart innovation as by the public's insatiable need for personally relevant transport information.
MyRail Lite developers chuffed to bits as thetrainline.com app tops app chart
19 November 2009
With over million journey look ups and half a million individual sessions recorded since entering the iPhone app store last month, thetrainline.com app is already a worthy successor to Kizoom's highly popular MyRail Lite app (RIP), outstripping its free download rate by over 100%.
Clever, quirky and compelling, thetrainline.com app has generated the fastest uptake of free UK travel apps in the iPhone app store and has held the top spot in travel apps since it launched in October. The speed of uptake is testament to the positive user experience with clear advantages over comparative services.
Kizoom collaborates with Centro to create pioneering interactive access to rail network maps
12 November 2009
Live Network Map, a schematic map seamlessly integrated with the RTI feed for departures, arrivals and service alterations, and a broad range of other data, was launched on the Network West Midlands website earlier this month.
Now available to UK rail and bus operators and local authorities, Live Network Map is a low cost, fast deployment service which takes a one dimensional image and makes it dynamic. The intuitive interface puts users in control to zoom, drag and click on station or stop names to access in-depth information. Standards-based interfaces are used to connect to existing information systems, enabling integration of as much live or static data as required to deliver a comprehensive service.
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thetrainline.com unveils free iPhone app from Kizoom
21 October 2009
Kizoom, who brought you MyRail Lite, collaborate with thetrainline.com to give rail passengers the definitive free UK journey planning service for iPhone users.
Offered as a complimentary service by the UK's leading online rail ticket retailer, thetrainline.com app has been designed to reflect the quality, speed and user experience of Kizoom's popular MyRail Lite service. Covering the entire UK rail network, thetrainline.com app is easy to use and highly intuitive with compelling features from multi-faceted journey planning options to the innovative use of Twitter.
Essex deploys Kizoom Smart Points at bus and rail interchanges
01 September 2009
Essex County Council is rolling out a network of 9 Smart Points at major bus and rail interchanges to provide useful travel information and services for residents as part of a wider scheme to increase public transport uptake across the county.
The Smart Point network will be served by Kizoom Vision content scheduling and distribution system, which will manage real-time and scheduled information and public service announcements.
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Hampshire pilots Kizoom's Live Travel Alerts system to tackle road congestion
03 August 2009
Hampshire County Council continues to innovate with a personalised travel alerts trial using latest Kizoom technology for mobile phones, to help tackle road congestion on key routes.
The advanced alerting engine used in the Hampshire trial has been developed and refined by Kizoom through years of experience running the popular Tube alerts system for Transport for London. Harnessing Hampshire's ROMANSE road management system, UTMC feeds and other transport data, Kizoom's advanced alerting engine constantly 'listens' to both event data received from feeds and subscription requests made by users, intelligently matches them and delivers a dependable travel 'intelligence' service which is simple to use and cost effective..
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