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transit systems
Revolutionize your transportation system with our platform for optimizing your multimodal transportation network.
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Multimodal Transit Planning
Make data-driven decisions, develop phased implementation plans, and optimize your multimodal network with our AI-powered platform.
- Travel demand modeling
- Scenario analysis
- AI service design
- Reports and KPIs
Trip Planner App
Deliver a fully white-labeled trip planner app with your branding, real-time updates, and multimodal routing so riders can plan complete journeys in one place.
- Agency-specific branding
- Real-time rider updates
- Cross-agency trip planning
- Live service alerts
Operations
Enhance your operations with our algorithmic dispatching, real-time tracking, analytics, reporting, and white-labeled mobile apps.
- Algorithmic dispatching
- Analytics and reporting
- Real-time tracking
- White-labeled apps
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about how Ontra fits with the tools and decisions your agency already has.
What does Ontra help transit agencies do?
Ontra combines travel demand modeling, optimization, and simulation to generate service options such as fixed routes, on-demand service zones, and frequency changes. Agencies can compare scenarios, understand tradeoffs, and build phased implementation plans while keeping planners in control of what moves forward.
What service decisions can Ontra help us make?
Ontra helps agencies generate and evaluate fixed routes, on-demand service zones, frequency, service span, and policy changes. For a given scenario, the platform generates service options, searches across various combinations, and recommends service changes based on the agency’s objectives and constraints. This helps planners compare the tradeoffs for each scenario, empowering them to make better decisions.
How does Ontra use AI?
Ontra uses travel-demand modeling, optimization, and simulation to generate and compare service scenarios. Agency staff set the budget, fleet, service standards, operational constraints, and policy goals. Ontra shows the projected impacts of each scenario, while planners decide what to refine, present, or implement.
Start with one question
What would you change about your transit network?
Tell us what you’re trying to figure out. Our team will review your question and available data, then email you an initial finding and a suggested next step. No account or meeting needed.
Need a starting point? Try a question:
Start with a focused assessment. If there’s more to explore, we can scope a pilot together.
See how Ontra can help your agency plan smarter, faster, and more equitably.
What's New
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Transit Tech Lab Proof of Concept Results
In Transit Tech Lab’s 2026 proof of concept, Ontra estimated that a cost-neutral MTA LIRR timetable could save riders about 177,000 hours a year and a redesigned NYC Transit Brooklyn bus network could add about 2.1 million annual riders.
Ontra Wins BE100 Transport & Mobility
Ontra won the Transport & Mobility category at the 2026 BE100 pitch competition at Blue Earth Summit in London, for helping transit agencies plan better service.
Building the Ontra Planning Platform
How Ontra brings demand modeling, optimization, and scenario testing into one workflow to recommend service that works under real-world constraints.
Ontra in the News
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Transit Tech Lab unveils proof-of-concept results from 2026 cohort
How Ontra used its AI platform to predict demand and recommend routes and schedules for MTA LIRR and NYC Transit, designed to cut passenger ride time.
Using AI to Plan Better Transit Service with Anthony Trasatti
Ontra co-founder and CEO Anthony Trasatti on how operations research and the MARTA Reach pilot led to an AI platform for transit planning.
NYC Turns to 18 Companies to Help Improve Mass Transit
Ontra joins Transit Tech Lab’s 2026 cohort to run a proof of concept with MTA New York City Transit and MTA Long Island Rail Road.
