Partnering for efficient passenger transportation: MBI and Terraplan

Every day, people with disabilities are taken to their schools, training centers or care facilities. A variety of factors such as school requirements, regional location conditions and individual passenger needs have to be taken into account. The organization of these transports is a challenging task, as the multifactorial requirements for route planning are often complex. Our HERE solution partner Terraplan is taking on this challenge with TerraIndividual, a modern planning, management, and optimization solution for individual passenger transport, particularly for the transport of people with disabilities.

Innovative transportation solutions for over 30 years

For over 30 years, Terraplan has been committed to optimizing geodata management at the municipal level and in companies. Founded with the aim of reducing the complexity of geodata processing, Terraplan has established itself especially in the development of software solutions for school transportation and WebGIS.

An outstanding example of the company’s innovative strength is the launch of TerraIndividual in 2014, a transport software developed to meet the growing demands and challenges in the planning, management and optimization of individual transport. The solution is aimed at customers who are active in the passenger transport of people with and without disabilities in exempt school transport and in individual transportation for workshops and care facilities. These include cities and municipalities, district authorities and counties, transport companies, institutions and associations.

Meeting complex tour planning requirements and individual passenger needs

TerraIndividual is able to optimally meet complex requirements. The software takes into account the specific needs of each passenger and enables efficient route planning and optimal utilization of trips. The associated app facilitates direct communication between dispatchers and drivers, provides relevant information on journeys and adjustments, and records working times. In this way, numerous challenges in everyday transportation are solved.

The use of TerraIndividual offers the following functionalities and advantages:

• Central data management: Recording and management of all relevant data on facilities, passengers, and transport plans.
• Interactive maps: Spatial representation of tours, addresses, locations, and additional pick-up points.
• Automatic tour planning: Optimal planning of routes based on route length and travel time, taking individual transport needs into account.
• Flexible adjustments: Dynamic adjustment of timetables and consideration of last-minute changes.
• Efficient change management: Direct exchange of information between dispatchers and drivers via the TerraIndividual app.
• Cost efficiency: Precise calculation of transportation costs and creation of customer-specific invoices.

HERE Technologies for precise tour planning

The collaboration with MBI and the use of HERE Technologies are of great importance to Terraplan. Siegfried Deininger, Managing Director at Terraplan, describes the partnership as follows: “We have valued the close, cooperative and flexible collaboration with MBI for many years. With HERE Traffic Patterns, MBI provides us with high-quality data that is indispensable for efficient and reliable tour planning for our customers.”

The use of HERE Traffic Patterns from historical traffic data, HERE Geocoding, HERE Tour Planning and HERE Routing enables precise and efficient tour planning. This data is indispensable for creating timetables, calculating travel costs, and adapting route planning to current traffic conditions.

HERE Traffic Patterns: High-quality historical traffic data that is essential for planning and optimizing routes.
HERE Geocoding and Routing: Precise geocoding of address data and optimized routing based on route length or travel time.
HERE Tour Planning: Adaptation of tour planning to current traffic conditions and individual transportation needs.
Integration of data: The integration of HERE data, which is optimized by MBI for the Terraplan application, and HERE TrafficPatterns enables accurate and reliable planning, cost calculation, and invoicing.

The partnership between Terraplan and MBI shows how innovative technologies and close collaboration can create solutions that make a real difference. With Terraplan’s solution powered by HERE Technologies, cities, municipalities and transportation companies are well-equipped to meet the challenges of individual passenger transport while meeting the needs of their passengers.

Visit the TerraIndividual website to learn more about Terraplan‘s innovative solutions. For more information on HERE Technologies Distribution, please contact the MBI Sales Team.