TUNNLL

Citizens in small towns often live without public transport due to operational cost barriers. Every day they need to travel, regularly or spontaneously, for work, school, healthcare, business, shopping and other purposes and are heavily reliant on using a car.

Tunnll is a new and disruptive service aimed at reshaping how inhabitants of smaller towns live and move. Tunnll’s goal is to change the lives of these people by providing them with local mass transit that can be used instead of driving (or just staying at home).

A cyber-physical system using big data and an Internet of Things network of sensors, Tunnll allows buses to stop only at dynamic meeting points along fixed bus routes, with guaranteed boarding passengers, instead of stopping at each and every bus stop. For passengers, the system replaces the timetable with real-time requests, and fixed bus stops with dynamic meeting points. Passengers do not need to walk to a bus stop and wait, but rather use the Tunnll app to place an order, get notified and only then do they get navigated to a dynamic meeting point.