As you read this article, New York’s Metropolitan Transport Agency (MTA) is embarking on a one-year pilot project to optimise the way it runs its bus fleet. The MTA will try out new ways of scheduling a few hundred buses at first, in Manhattan and the Bronx, as traffic recovers from the pandemic. It has received funding from the New York State Research and Energy Department to see if the experiment can also generate environmental benefits. The contractor helping the MTA plan its bus use more efficiently is CitySwift, a public transport data analytics start-up founded in Galway six years…

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