Skip to main content

PTV launches new city app

Software manufacturer PTV Group is launching its latest mobile app for the 2015 International Transport Forum in Leipzig, combining tourist information, events programmes, transport information or the latest mobility options in a a single app. The app for Leipzig is now available for download for Android and iOS in the app stores under ‘ITF 2015. The highlights are real-time traffic information and multimodal navigation for cars, public transport, bikes and pedestrians. The city of Leipzig and the PT
May 22, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
Software manufacturer 3264 PTV Group is launching its latest mobile app for the 2015 998 International Transport Forum in Leipzig, combining tourist information, events programmes, transport information or the latest mobility options in a a single app.

The app for Leipzig is now available for download for Android and iOS in the app stores under ‘ITF 2015. The highlights are real-time traffic information and multimodal navigation for cars, public transport, bikes and pedestrians.

The city of Leipzig and the PTV Group have worked on the project together as organisers of the International Transport Forum (ITF). ITF, an 7353 OECD organisation, prepared the programme of events, the city provided the sights and the tourist information, while PTV prepared the mobility portal and finalised the complete app.

PTV has already developed an app for the city of Karlsruhe, which also includes real-time transport information, up-to-date traffic information service, roadworks, parking spaces and park-and-ride options, along with the corresponding public transport timetables.

For both Leipzig Karlsruhe, PTV has successfully integrated the latest traffic information from data providers, 163 Inrix and says other sources can also be connected.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Considering accessibility costs little and pays dividends for all travellers
    August 8, 2017
    Catering for those with disabilities can be cost-effective and improve services for all travellers, as David Crawford discovers. Clearer understanding of the economic value of accessible transport is essential if we are to speed up the current slow deployment levels, according to the Paris-based International Transport Forum (ITF), which staged a 2016 round table on the ‘Benefits and Costs of Inclusion in Transport’. It wants to see greater availability of data on levels of actual and unmet demand for acces
  • New markets for travel information apps
    November 26, 2013
    Purpose-designed travel information apps are emerging to support the real estate market in the US – and potentially more widely – in a major diversification away from the conventional automotive and navigation device sectors. In July 2013, Washington State-based Imprev, which develops web-based marketing support aids for realtors, announced its App Generator. Claimed as an industry first, this enables property businesses to create their own branded mobile apps to give away as marketing tools to potential
  • PTV sets its sights on Smart City solutions
    February 9, 2017
    Making a city smarter not only relies on understand technological opportunities but also human decision-making, as Miller Crockart explains. Cities are about people – a fact that can easily be forgotten when experts talk about roads, healthcare and education as though they are abstract and unconnected monoliths rather than things people use. Understanding how and why people use services is vital for making decisions on how they can be optimised for maximum efficiency across inter-connected networks that for
  • Kapsch TrafficCom acquires 75 percent of Fluidtime
    January 12, 2017
    Kapsch TrafficCom has taken a 75 per cent stake in Fluidtime Data Services which will enable Kapsch to strengthen its position to act as a platform- and service provider for Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) schemes for cities, corporations and transport agencies. Since 2004, Fluidtime has developed and operated software solutions and user-friendly mobile services enabling intermodal urban travelling. Its mobility platform provides urban travelers with real-time information on transport options and multimodal