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Metro Manila is known to have one of the worst traffic congestions in the entire world. It’s now more important than ever to enable smart mobility solutions for all, saving organizations time through the automation of dispatching and route calculation.

With all modes of public transportation remaining suspended in many major cities, both the public and private sectors must work hard, perhaps even together, to enable mobility for Filipino employees in the “new normal.”

A recent study found that companies in the Philippines employ an average of 7 people just to manually organize transportation routes for their employee shuttle or bus fleets.

Singapore-based smart mobility solution firm SWAT Mobility aims to provide businesses with a safe, reliable way to transport employees amidst Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ). 

SWAT Mobility is providing their mobile application, SWATRide, for the Philippines public to book rides on to a point-to-point (P2P) bus service. SWATRide is free and available for download from the App Store, Google Play and Huawei App Gallery.

SWAT Mobility has wrapped up services in the mobility project by Toyota Mobility Foundation for healthcare workers in Bangkok, Thailand after 3 months of successful deployment.

日本初の案件として、株式会社ジュピターテレコム（本社：東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長：石川 雄三、以下「J:COM」）の全国約4,500台の営業車を使用したJ:COM MaaS (ライドシェアサービス) の実証実験に対し、当社のダイナミックルーティングアルゴリズムを使用したアプリケーションを提供いたします。

SWAT Mobility (SWAT), a Singapore-based mobility tech startup, expands into Japan with the launch of a new on-demand work transport for employees in J:COM, a leading CATV operation and telecommunication company in Japan.

SWAT Mobility and Toyota Motor Philippines launch the first smart transportation solution for corporate employees in the Philippines following their successful service for Philippine General Hospital (PGH).

A large ground handling agent at Changi Airport has configured their staff transport to the new requirements and changes in work schedules due to COVID-19, using SWAT Mobility’s technology.

SWAT Mobility is supporting Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF) to offer on-demand transport of COVID-19 test specimens for four medical clinics, one hospital located in North Jakarta and another hospital in Bekasi.

Hillsbus MetroConnect on-demand bus service has added 2 new stops (Norwest Private Hospital & CircaRetail Shopping Centre) to its service, to better connect residents within the area to essential services.

SWAT Mobility appoints Grace Ho as its President to strengthen the firm’s growth and business operations. The firm will support companies activating their BCPs with its smart transport solutions during the COVID-19 period‍.

SWAT Mobility has partnered with Toyota Mobility Foundation to offer demand-responsive commuter transport for the healthcare workers in the region, starting with Manila, using our Just In Time product. 

In March 2020, SWAT's routing technology was used to assist in the manufacture of hand sanitizers for the community. Read on to see how a community pooled their resources together to make this possible.

In late 2019, SWAT launched in Vietnam our employee transport solution for a large industrial park. We provide the technology behind the new demand-responsive park shuttles.

SWAT entered the Indonesia market with a bus shuttle solution earlier this week, launching with a major private transport operator who is looking to increase market share in the bus industry.

SWAT is the only Singaporean startup among the 16 mobility startups accepted into the latest Winter/Spring 2020 Batch of the Plug and Play Japan accelerator program.

SWAT is proud to share that we have won the Gold award for the category of Best HR Tech Start-Up Company this year.

Since March 2019, employees of Sembcorp Marine, have been commuting between their homes and worksite using SWAT’s employee transport service powered by demand-responsive, shared transport technology.

SWAT signed a MoU with Chinese bus company Guangzhou No. 3 Bus Co. as a show of commitment to collaborate on a pilot of on-demand shared bus services at the 10th Singapore-Guangdong Collaboration Council.

Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) implemented a creative digital payment platform called Opal Connect.

In closing its Series A funding, SWAT has seen strong interest totaling US$10.1m, in a round led by The University of Tokyo Edge Capital (UTEC) 4 Limited Partnership with participation from 7 other investors.

Sembcorp Marine, our client, won the Silver award for the category “Excellence in HR Innovation” at the HR Excellence Award. The award was to recognise their improvement in employee transport, implemented with SWAT’s technology.

This week, SWAT launched a trial for transport of overnight staff at the leading ground handler and in-flight catering service provider at Singapore Changi Airport, with hundreds of employees working the overnight shift in a given day.

SWAT rolled out our innovative tech transport solution for a large hospitality client to offer late-night transport for their overnight staff.