Via Transportation, Inc.

Via transforms antiquated and siloed public transportation systems into smart, data-driven, and AI-powered efficient digital networks. We are addressing a striking gap in the $545 billion global public transportation market. While billions of people across the globe rely on public transportation, this critical form of mobility has yet to meaningfully benefit from recent advances in technology. Buses still follow fixed routes and schedules planned years, if not decades ago, regardless of actual demand for their service. We can track our pizza from the moment it leaves the oven, but parents of more than 25 million children in the United States have no way of knowing when their child’s school bus will arrive. Some of our most vulnerable citizens, who depend on paratransit to access critical medical care, have no alternative to cumbersome phone reservations that must be made a day or more in advance. Government agencies and private organizations responsible for providing public transportation operate in a complex and demanding environment. They must maintain reliable and affordable service in the face of continuously changing and difficult to predict traffic and ridership patterns. The industry has historically had no option but to rely on fragmented technology systems with limited functional flexibility, aging infrastructure, and poor end-user experience. Rising operating costs and labor shortages have placed a growing strain on budgets.