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Integrated IT Systems
for Bus and Rail

We understand
your business

Whether they have five vehicles or fifty, a dozen employees or ten thousand, two routes or two hundred, transport operators provide valuable contributions every day. We are familiar with the challenges that bus and rail companies face and help them to keep all requirements manageable and to fulfil their tasks as effectively as possible.

IVU has been developing integrated IT systems for an efficient and environmentally friendly public transport for over 45 years. Using IVU.suite as our basis, we develop powerful IT products for bus and rail companies.

IVU. Systems for vibrant cities.

IVU.suite
End-to-end solution for bus and rail

An integrated, one-stop solution – IVU.suite offers the right support for all fields of activity of bus and rail companies: from planning, dispatch, fleet management, ticketing, and passenger information through to the settlement of transport contracts.

Digital transformation –
moving forward with IT solutions

Software for train path management in public transport
Software for the disruption management of transport operators
Mobile software solutions for modern personnel dispatching
Software for duty scheduling of transport operators
Software for public transport tenders - scenario planning for transport operators
Software for electric mobility at transport operators
Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud technologies for transport operators
01 Order train paths

No train without a path. IVU.suite manages train paths directly in resource planning. Volatile conditions, such as train path changes at short notice, pose challenges for planners and dispatchers. The integrated train path management of the IVU.suite supports them in managing this highly complex task. With it, the timetable currently planned and published by the network operator can be viewed in the IVU.suite and integrated into operational timetable and vehicle scheduling.

Learn more about path management
02 Resolving disruptions quickly

Delays, bunching, accidents, emergencies – numerous events can disrupt operations. To ensure that passengers do not notice these, IVU.suite helps dispatch managers to respond quickly and appropriately in all situations. The system monitors all aspects of a trip, from the vehicle status and the timetable situation through to the current deployment of vehicles and staff. If any irregularities occur, it offers the right measures immediately, so that passengers reach their destination safely.

03 Digitalising workflows

From planning to dispatch to drivers: Digital workflows speed up processes and improve collaboration. Mobile staff can also be highly integrated in operational workflows via tablet. Whether holiday planning, duty requests or duty swaps, the entire dispatch process is fully digital. In addition, important documents such as duty schedules, manuals and forms are a fingertip away. This ensures that all employees are kept in the loop – any time, any place.

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04 Creating fair duty schedules

The right employee in the right place at the right time: With IVU solutions, transport operators can ensure that all employees are where they need to be – whether that is driving a bus or operating a lifting platform in the workshop. IVU.suite is familiar with staff preferences and qualifications as well as the requirements of a duty, and hence creates fair and balanced duty schedules that comply with all rules. This ensures efficiency – and satisfied employees.

Learn more about IVU.crew and IVU.pad
05 Winning tenders

There are a host of crucial factors when competing for new concessions. Optimisation algorithms make the difference: As well as assisting with day-to-day operations, they help with business decisions, such as applications for new concessions. This makes it possible to calculate scenarios for parallel routes that have not yet been acquired and use them as a basis for an efficient service offering that puts operators a vehicle’s length ahead of the competition.

06 Making the most of electric buses

Battery-powered electric buses have now become commonplace at many transport operators. Charging management and charging times, ranges and route lengths, depot charging or opportunity charging – planners and dispatch managers must find the optimum solution to this complex puzzle. IVU.suite helps to optimise operational workflows, deploy electric buses efficiently and integrate them seamlessly into planning, dispatch and fleet management.

All about the use of electric buses
07 All from the cloud

With IVU.cloud, the complete software is available as a service. No more local installations. Always up to date, flexibly scalable. IVU takes over the entire technical operational management for the IVU.suite - from hosting and maintenance to the installation of updates. High-performance, highly available, secure and reliable: IVU.cloud remains fully scalable, for example for new routes or lines.

Learn more about IVU.cloud

This is what
our customers say

Ein roter DB-Regionalzug fährt an einem Fluss vorbei und wird in diesem gespiegelt.
"The completion of this very ambitious project is a milestone in the ongoing digitalisation of DB Regio's core processes. The fact that we now work with the same system in our transport networks makes consistent planning and dispatch, from vehicle scheduling to personnel deployment, much easier."
Oliver Terhaag
Director of Production | DB Regio AG
Ein silberner Mercedes-Benz eCitaro fährt auf einer Straße. Vor dem Bus sind Grafiken einer Software in das Bild implementiert.
"Together with IVU, we want to make the path to electromobility as simple and straightforward as possible for transport operators. The deployment-tested overall eMobility system is suitable for any type of fleet – be it 10 electric buses or large mixed fleets of more than 1000 vehicles."
Mirko Sgodda
Head of Sales, Marketing and Services | Daimler Buses
Trenitalia trains at Torino station
"With IVU, we have reached a new level of transparency and flexibility in duty scheduling and optimisation. IVU.rail has enabled us to find the genuinely optimum solution and increase our productivity on a long-term basis."
Mauro Natali
Production Manager Regional Transport during the IVU implementation project in 2016 | Trenitalia
Torghatten-Bus zwischen Wiesen am Wasser
"Thanks to the excellent optimisation core of the IVU.suite, we have achieved high savings. It was easy to make the decision to standardise the scheduling and dispatch across the Group as a whole using the IVU system to use synergies and make the best possible use of our resources."
Atle Rønning
CEO | Norgesbuss
Ein ICE 4 fährt durch zahlreiche Stromleitungen auf den Fotografierenden zu.
"Our aim is clear: we want even more people to be excited about climate-friendly rail travel. Digitalisation plays a key role here. IT systems such as IVU.rail make it possible for us to resolve challenges in the daily planning for our trains with the best possible solutions for travellers. This allows us to manage transport more efficiently and reduce delays."
Dr Daniela Gerd tom Markotten
Board Member for Digitalisation and Technology | DB Fernverkehr
Ein orangener Zug von Arriva Rail London steht in einem Londoner Bahnhof.
“We strive to run a punctual, reliable and safe railway for our customers and IVU.rail is improving our ability to do so. Historically, we have used technology that doesn’t integrate, impacting our ability to make efficient and consistent operational decisions. IVU.rail gives us the most up-to-date information, so we can respond to disruption quickly and deliver an even greater level of service to our customers.”
Matt Pocock
Operations Director | Arriva Rail London
Zwei silber-graue SJ Züge stehen auf einem Bahngleis in Malmö.
“We are fully convinced that IVU.rail is the right system to support our business and that IVU is the right partner now and in the future to increase our efficiency and continue our process of digitalization.”
Johan Näsman
CIO | SJ AB
PostBus in the mountains
"IVU.suite has enabled us to roll out a solution throughout Switzerland and to establish uniform standardised processes. Nevertheless, we are still flexible where necessary. It allows us to increase our efficiency, reduce our costs and ensure that PostBus retains its competitiveness in the future."
Jean-Pierre Boillat
Head of Production Projects | PostBus Switzerland
Aerial einer roten S-Bahn von DSB, die vor untergehender Sonne durch Kopenhagen fährt.
"Introducing IVU.rail for all our long-haul and regional rail transport after the introduction with the Copenhagen S-Train means we will be able to align our planning and dispatching processes throughout the network. This simplifies our system landscape, increases operational quality, and saves valuable resources at the same time."
Thomas Gordon Clausen
Head of Current Operations | DSB
Ein lila ESWE E-Bus auf einer Feldstraße vor blauem Himmel.
“The integrated IVU.suite solutions that are especially tailored to battery buses save us numerous individual work steps in the dispatch. In the future we will profit from a completely digital workflow, from rostering to charging management.”
Dietmar Schneider
Division Manager for Technical Operations | ESWE Verkehr
Collage aus drei Bildern mit zwei MTR Mälartåg-Zügen, dem CEO Fridka Ukman und einer Nahaufnahme eines MTR Mälartåg-Zuges.
"We are pleased to be able to use IVU's proven standard system in our newly won concession as well. Our planners and dispatchers have already built up a high level of expertise with IVU.rail in the Pendeltågen network, which is why we can carry out the new project almost completely independently."
Frida Ukmar
CEO | MTR Mälartåg
Traffic with people and buses at the bus station
"The modernisation of the passenger information was particularly challenging on account of the size of the bus stations, but also the specific Belgian requirements. Thanks to the IVU solution, we now have a central system for all data transmission for the control centre and passenger information in one."
Yvan Strubbe
Programme Manager | De Lijn
Finnish VR trains at the station from above
"Having our vehicles, conductors and train drivers in one integrated system opens up numerous opportunities for us to further develop our disruption management, resource optimisation and data-driven operations – a very good solution for the future."
Antti Peura
Head of Digital, Regional Services | VR Group
Transdev bus on the road in an old town
"Thanks to IVU.suite, we can align and centrally manage our processes. This allows us to achieve a very high level of efficiency and makes life easier for our employees. This is a major step for us towards positioning us for future growth and the challenges on the market."
Henrik Behrens
Managing director for the bus division | Transdev GmbH
Kundenreferenz - Digitalisierung LTG Link mittels IVU Software
“This system is one of the most important digitalisation projects for the company: it will be used for planning train journeys and staff workload. This solution will allow the company to analyse everyday operations and increase efficiency by taking away the burden of manual activities and excessive paperwork.”
Linas Baužys
CEO | LTG Link
Trams of the Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe drive out of the depot
"The integrated approach of IVU.suite convinced us. We will be able to standardise our software landscape and will have everything available from a single source. With IVU, we have gained an experienced partner for long-term cooperation in order to optimally position ourselves for future developments."
Bruno Stehrenberger
Director | Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe
Slovenian SZ train on the mountains
"Thanks to the integrated planning and scheduling of IVU.rail, we can now standardise many of our previously manual tasks in a digital process and thus work much more efficiently. This will increase our competitiveness, especially with regard to our targeted growth in the European market."
Dušan Mes
Director General | Slovenske železnice
Skyline von Lima
"By choosing IVU.suite we can rely on an integrated solution and IVU as a strong partner to achieve our goals. We’ve come a long way already and I am looking forward to everything we are going to set in motion together in the future."
Otto Sarmiento
CEO | Grupo Express del Perù
SBB Cargo train runs on a bridge in the mountains
"The collaboration with IVU has gone really well. Instead of coordinating multiple suppliers, we receive the entire service from a single source with the IVU.cloud, allowing us to respond quickly to changes and adapt the system flexibly."
Michel Thüring
Head of IT Production | SBB Cargo
Zwei Busse an einer Bushaltestelle in Lagos im Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Lagos.
"The introduction of the IVU system to this market will go a long way in assisting the management of Public Transport in Lagos. As the local partner in the consortium implementation, we are pleased to have worked successfully with international partners that broadens our capacity and ability to successfully launch the first ITS implementation in Nigeria and West Africa."
Lanre Kuye
OAK Telecom and Technology Consulting
MÁV train at the station in Budapest
"By introducing IVU.rail, MÁV was able to standardise and modernise their internal processes – thus making them more efficient. At the same time, the standard product’s wide range of parameters and customisability ensured that even MÁV’s complicated regulations could be well implemented."
Gábor Jandrasics
Managing Director | Soring
Zwei blau-weiße Züge von start stehen an einem Bahnhof.
"That we would be able to bring the system into productive operation on time after only six months was by no means a given and indicates the high performance of the IVU.suite."
Alexander Falkenmeier
Business Executive | Start Niedersachsen Mitte
Ein leerer gelb-weißer Bus sowie ein gelb-weißer Zug der SWEG stehen nebeneinander auf einem Betriebshof.
"Thanks to the introduction of IVU.suite across our whole operation we will benefit from a completely integrated IT system landscape for all our processes. This will make practically every step easier, save an enormous amount of resources, and in the process further improve public transport in Baden-Wuerttemberg."
Tobias Harms
Chairman of the Board | SWEG
Large street intersection in Bangkok with bright traffic lights from above

IVU at a glance

We have been developing integrated IT systems for efficient and environ­mentally friendly public transport for over 45 years. More than 500 customers worldwide rely on the standard products of IVU.suite.

Made in Germany –
moving the world

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Smart minds for
complex projects

IVU employs dedicated people who develop ideas, write software, implement projects, advise customers and provide support. Their combined expertise will ensure that even your most highly complex IT projects are a success. 

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Highlights –
using buses and trains better

ICE trains at the station
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02 E-mobility integrated
04 Optimisation as a driver of efficiency
05 IVU.pad – the digital workplace
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IVU is among the world’s leading providers of integrated IT systems for public transport and railway companies.

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12161 Berlin, Germany

Phone: +49.30.8 59 06 -0
E-mail: contact@ivu.com

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