This month was no different to any other in the world of Avego – it was overflowing with excitement, it was jam-packed with creativity and it was full steam ahead towards ground-breaking transportation technology!
Here are some of the highlights…
Strategy, synergy and other such business…
In mid-February, sunny Kinsale in the South-East of Ireland received an unexpected flurry of visitors from all over the world. Although this picturesque town already attracts tourists in their droves, this particular crowd were attracted by something even more inspiring than the terrific organic cuisine on offer in Ireland’s first Transition Town (http://www.transitionnetwork.org/). The Annual Avego Strategy Meeting, brought our team together from all corners of the world. We discussed the year past – our victories and our failings – we planned , debated and innovated and in the end agreed that the year to come will be full of challenges and awesome developments, some so exciting we can barely keep a lid on it! So stay tuned…you never know what we might let slip!
Sean O’Sullivan spreading the word
Our Commander in Chief, Sean O’Sullivan, was busy spreading the word and inspiring thousands of people across the US and Europe – urging them to think differently, to reassess their current commute assumptions and to push themselves outside their travel comfort zone. In his keynote address to over 1400 people at the Texas Transportation Forum (San Antonio, TX), O’Sullivan spoke of the importance of reinventing our transport system by adding cars and vans to the public transport network. He echoed this message in his addresses at the Sustainable Transport Conference in Berkeley, CA and at the Deloitte Future of Transport Conference in Washington, DC.
New Android Futurefleet now running near Washington DC
Avego’s newest version of Futurefleet, a transport management solution for bus and public transport operators, is now running in Loudoun County’s Commuter Bus Service, with 50 buses now using specially-equipped Dell Streaks as the backbone of the new Real-time Passenger Information system for the thousands of daily commuters to DC from Virginia. Up until now, most RTPI systems used in the world were based on embedded systems or WinCE. The new Android systems provide higher quality, faster performance, lower cost systems to transport operators.