Rumbo — WhereIsMyTransport’s public transport app — is improving mobility across the Majority World, starting with Mexico City, Lima, and Bangkok. We spoke with Chayanon Visutthithada, Marketing Manager, Gianmarco Heredia, CX Analyst, and Fernanda Gonzalez, Marketing Manager, about Rumbo’s latest update — bringing daily updates, voice note reporting, and a…

Designing a public transport app for emerging markets means understanding the problems commuters are trying to solve, from getting around dynamic public transport networks to using lower-spec phones. We spoke with Emma Chapman, Lead Product Designer, and Kiki Martins da Silva, Senior Product Designer, about how Rumbo — WhereIsMyTransport’s public…

Billions of people in emerging markets rely on public transport to get around. WhereIsMyTransport is taking another bold step towards improving access to public transport data in these markets with our Data Portal, where anyone can interrogate a sample of our data — for free and without sign-up. In this…

Our mission to fill the mobility and location data gap in emerging markets has taken us to Amman, Jordan, and Beirut, Lebanon. In this thought-provoking conversation, we spoke with Pablo Lang, Data Product Project Manager, and Graeme Leighton, Data Solutions Lead, about their work producing the data needed to understand…

Rumbo — WhereIsMyTransport’s public transport app — is the only place emerging-market commuters can get reliable and real-time data from every mode of public transport, as well as sharing their own disruption information with other Rumbo users. We spoke with Caitlin Spring, Lead Product Manager, and Tamsyn Lunt, Customer Experience…

WhereIsMyTransport’s Real-Time Alerts for incidents and disruptions reduce uncertainty, benefiting anyone living and working in emerging markets — including people using our public transport app Rumbo. We spoke with Chris Marais, Machine Learning Engineer, and Frida Mjaria, Software Engineer, about how Artificial Intelligence could transform real-time public transport data production…

WhereIsMyTransport and Data-Pop Alliance have published a groundbreaking new report [es] looking at how women use public transport, the obstacles they face, and their perceptions of mobility in Mexico City and Lima. We spoke with project leads Daniela Flores from WhereIsMyTransport and Ivette Yanez and Yara Antoniassi from Data-Pop Alliance…

You would be forgiven for thinking that Dar es Salaam was Tanzania’s capital. In fact, Dodoma has been the country’s capital since 1974, when power was transferred from Dar es Salaam in the highlands of Tanzania. That didn’t slow Dar es Salaam down though — it ranks as Africa’s fifth…

Rumbo is WhereIsMyTransport’s public transport app, and the only app in Mexico City, Lima, and Bangkok that includes every public transport route. We spoke with Jug Vajarodaya and Jorge Lara — our Growth Leads for Southeast Asia and Latin America — about how Rumbo is creating opportunity by helping people…