Smart Public Transit Software
PTV Lines is a cloud-based public transit software for line planning and public transit service optimization.
It empowers planners and operators to shape new and existing public transit routes, without requiring expert knowledge in complex planning tools.
How does PTV Lines work?
The tool provides a fully digitalized workflow for network design and timetable planning. With PTV Lines, you can create, duplicate, and compare different scenarios.
PTV Lines provides a fully digitalized workflow for network design and timetable planning. You edit your line routes and stops on an interactive map and can adjust variables such as stop sequences or waiting times at any time.
Our software immediately visualizes the effects of your changes on your entire network, including travel times and capacity utilization. This allows you to optimize your route network precisely and efficiently. You also increase passenger satisfaction by improving punctuality and reducing waiting times.
Why you should work with PTV Lines
Optimize your line planning easily, even without knowledge of complex public transit software
Understand the concrete effects of infrastructure changes before making decisions
Design public transit services together as a team and share results with stakeholders
Sketch ideas quickly with a powerful and intuitive tool, streamline your workflow and boost productivity
Work from anywhere: PTV Lines is cloud-based, easily scalable and self-updating
Rely on our IT security: PTV Lines is hosted in the EU and meets the highest security requirements
Key Features in Beta Version
Service planning & evaluation
- Upload your PT supply data in different formats or start from scratch.
- Create and compare numerous scenarios.
- See operation costs and public transit service KPIs immediately while changing your public transit service.
- Export of public transit supply scenarios in different formats e.g. GTFS
Simple, powerful editing
- Create lines, line routes, and stop points.
- Model different transit systems in your public transit supply scenario
- Add or modify your line routes on the map, along the existing public transit network, streets, or as straight lines.
- Benefit from automatic stop detection and stop sequence generation, which calculates distance and travel time of the lines.
- Change the schedule and frequencies with few clicks.
- Undo all your changes.
Background data
- Upload own spatial background data like population or points of interests
- Visualize your data as a layer in addition to your public transit service on the map and consider any changes based on it
Collaborative working
- Invite other people and assign them different roles and rights
- Design your public transit service collaboratively with others and share results with stakeholders
Intuitive usability without training
- Start to work without expert knowledge in transit planning software or extensive training
Web-based cloud application, no installation or updates required
- Work in your web browser on any computer or laptop without installation
- Always work with the latest release including up-to-date features
What you can expect from upcoming releases
We are continuously expanding the scope of functionalities of PTV Lines. These features are on the roadmap:
- Reachability to workplaces, schools, and any user’s background data within the catchment area of stops and lines.
- Accessibility analysis (Isochrones)
- Demand Analysis
Licenses & Plans
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Region size (km2) |
unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
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Population of region |
unlimited | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
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Number of lines in the network per scenario |
<50 | <100 | <500 | <2,000 |
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Number of stops in the network per scenario |
<500 | <1,000 | <5,000 | <100,000 |
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Number of scenarios |
100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
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Number of users |
2 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
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Customer support |
Full | Full | Full | Full |
A selection of satisfied PTV software customers
Why SaaS?
PTV Lines SaaS is a cutting-edge technology that will completely transform your line planning in public transit. Embrace the simplicity, flexibility, and security that our cloud-based solution offers:
- Accessible via the Internet, PTV Lines SaaS provides the agility needed to quickly respond to evolving demands in transit planning without the hassle of infrastructure management.
- The digitalized planning process with PTV Lines SaaS accelerates productivity, reduces errors, and fosters collaboration across teams and different stakeholders to reach the right decisions.
- PTV Lines cloud-solution seamlessly integrates regular updates and enhancements, providing access to the latest features and robust security measures.
