Keolis launches Hove to accelerate development of digital services

Keolis Group launched a new entity March 1, Hove, which is dedicated to the design and deployment of digital tools to boost shared mobility. The new division is the result of merging Kisio Digital and the data team from Kisio Services and Consulting. The division’s 110 mobility data experts aim to support transit authorities and their passengers with innovative digital products.

As mobility services become highly digitalized, managing and understanding data is key to implementing - and measuring - mobility policies that meet the travel requirements of ever passenger.

Consequently, Keolis is integrating all activities and services dedicated to the development of digital products and tools into a single subsidiary, Hove. The pooling of talents and expertise within Hove will:

▪ accelerate understanding of mobility and passengers' journeys within a local region;

▪ improve the quality of passenger information to make it available and accessible to the greatest possible number of people, in real time; and

▪ increase the options available to passengers according to their travel criteria (time, cost, comfort, CO2, etc.).

Keolis explains Hove targets all actors of the mobility sector, public or private, offering them digital products and tools at a time when passengers' behavior and expectations with regard to mobility have profoundly changed since the start of the COVID-19 health crisis.

Keolis notes Hove will bring together tools required to understand changing mobility needs including Patterns, which analyses and understands mobility patterns within a region by collecting and studying anonymized GPS tracks; Dotpulse, which measures the number of passengers on a transit line; Navitia, which integrates transit modes into real-time trip planning; and Impulse, which allows transit authorities and operators to visualize a transport network’s performance.