“Give me the data, I will increase the punctuality of your service and reduce cost. Those two deltas are worth millions and millions”
Alan Farrelly and Brian O'Rourke are the co-founders of Galway-based CitySwift, a start-up that digs into bus operators' data troves to help them optimise their networks. They tell Thomas Hubert how they grew the business from a side show to Farrelly's family business in their Longford teenage years to securing a contract with New York's transport agency and raising €3.5 million from top investors on the transport and tech scene – and why they think there is more money to be made from buses than flying cars.
