Blog

Consider a recent survey by advisory firm Willis Towers Watson that found that about a third of employees stay with their company because of benefits. It’s worth asking what’s really in demand. The answers may even surprise you.

An effective workers’ transport solution encompasses the provision of an exclusive, point-to-point transport service, while using technology to enable compliance with BCA’s safe regulations and include smart routing and capacity planning capabilities to cope with the complexities of transport planning. 

SWAT Mobility clinches another PDPTW record on the world-renowned Li & Lim Benchmark with our proprietary algorithm developed in-house.

Mobility problems in the Philippines has became worse due to the pandemic. With many Filipinos finding it harder to get to work, it’s now more important than ever for companies to provide transportation benefits for their employees.

SWAT Mobility is a proud adopter of the Tripartite Standards by Singapore’s Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP).

Our Future Mobility Consultant, Bing Yang, reflects on the journey SWAT Mobility has taken to get to where we are today.

Our Product Manager, Melanie Tan, gives an insightful account of her experience with remote usability testing for our overseas deployments during COVID-19.

How demand-responsive employee transport can help you improve your service levels while maintaining cost, and ensure safety in light of COVID-19.

Employers are exploring safer transport alternatives to protect employees. Here is a breakdown of the transport options commuters have, and how employers can use technology to provide safe employee transportation.

In a live webinar organised by LIT Transit, our CEO Jarrold Ong talks about the role real-time passenger information play in on-demand services and gives some insights on the prediction of journey times and future mobility.

Last weekend, we presented our mobility solutions to COVID-19 challenges in the finale of the Y4PT's Hack Covid-19 & Reshape Societies global contest. From over 35 teams and more than 350 participants, our team emerged as the top 15 teams selected to proceed to the finals. 

The pandemic has forced transit agencies, local governments and related stakeholders to urgently rethink how to address mobility needs sustainably in our cities. Here are 4 response strategies cities have adopted in light of the implications brought about by COVID-19.

Companies are now digitising their employee transport with transport management systems to reduce overall costs and give their employees greater convenience in their commutes.

Learn more about our President, Grace Ho, as she tells us about the first thing would do after COVID-19 blows over, as well as her favourite part of her job.

Our Solution Sales and Customer Success Consultant Charmaine Liew explains her process of how she works with our clients to implement our solutions their company.

Earlier this year, we embarked on a rebranding project that turned out to be a momentous milestone. It helped us to align our offerings with our beliefs and communicate what we stand for to our stakeholders.

We’ve been using Figma for all the right reasons. We used it as our primary screen design tool, we’ve used it to test our design with its prototyping feature and we’ve also been using it to create design components that we can all use as a team. It’s taken design collaboration to the next level.

In light of the current Covid-19 outbreak, strengthen your BCPs with our technology that targets employee transport. Learn more about how we can automate scheduling around split teams and enable contact tracking.

This article explores some insights we discovered in the course of our deployments regarding the pick-up and drop-off waypoints of passengers, mainly how waypoint selection should consider not just the distance by foot, but also the passengers' behaviours and preferences.

This article highlights the importance of using accurately calibrated speed maps with the routing engine based on our insights from operating high-efficiency, high-volume, demand-responsive, ride-sharing technology.

In this article, we explore how passengers perceive the quality of the routes generated by algorithms, which often have nothing to do with the routes satisfying set constraints, but rather human perception.

SWAT’s pooling algorithm is the heart of our technology, and is how we generate the optimal routes for our passengers. In this article, we give a simplified overview of how the technology works.

Mr Lim Kok Quee, Deputy CEO of NEC APAC, and Mr Jarrold Ong, CEO and Co-founder of SWAT, explain the collaboration, and discuss the future of apps in the travel and commuter space.

SWAT's technology pools large numbers of commuters with the least number of vehicles, optimising routes dynamically to provide more efficient corporate transport. We also hope to reduce congestion due to private car usage.

In October 2019, SWAT launched Ally in collaboration with NEC, a leading Japanese multinational information technology company. Ally was fully operational during the week of the 26th Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress. The on-demand buses provided by SWAT ran for free during this period, within the geofence of downtown Singapore region.