To help increase social distance and stop the spread of COVID-19, many cities and countries are decreasing or shutting down public transportation. Now is the time to adapt existing infrastructure to support our communities. Via’s technology and operational expertise can help develop safe, reliable, and efficient transit — smart solutions built for critical workers and essential services.
We’ll work with you to optimize your transit network for emergencies. Together, we can assess how to operate an existing fixed-route service, when to temporarily replace it with an on-demand or pre-scheduled one, or how to optimize the use of surplus vehicles and operators as a result of current circumstances.
Essential employees — healthcare, government, and delivery workers — still need to get to work in order to help those who are in need and at risk. Our technology can shape transit systems into dynamic operations that help provide safe transport to critical employees, with transit to and from approved work places, with other approved passengers.
As the world adapts to this temporary new reality where most people stay home and maintain social distance, the need to safely get essential goods and services to the population is ever-growing. Goods and services that travel to the individual can include: grocery and food deliveries, medical supplies and pharmaceuticals, and necessary medical appointments.
For a company like Via that seeks to imagine and help implement the optimized transport networks of the future, this is the perfect time to be putting its technology to use and seeing what it can do to help cities react to the crisis as it evolves, including as we eventually move beyond it.”