A brand new collaboration between electrical scooter firm Hopp and the Strætó bus service might make it doable for commuters to simply switch from bus to scooter utilizing the identical app, Vísir reviews.
When Hopp launched in Reykjavík in 2019, many observers thought it was a dying knell for Strætó—that given the choice of leaping on an e-scooter, many riders would cease taking the bus totally. This hasn’t confirmed to be the case, although. In reality, the 2 transport modes appear to complement each other, as evidenced by the e-scooters usually strewn round metropolis bus shelters.
Two modes of transit, one app
Hopp was began by software program builders and so it solely is smart that they’d be desirous about new methods to combine their very own software program and app with Strætó’s. Hopp CEO Sæunn Ósk Unnsteinsdóttir says she believes it must be doable, as an illustration, for the corporate’s e-scooters to pop up on the bus map in the Strætó app.
“This is, of course, super important, because we know people are starting to pick up the Hopp app to look for scooters when they’re on the bus and coming into the city, for instance,” she defined.
Both Hopp and Strætó would additionally prefer it to be doable to use the identical app to pay for a visit that’s cut up between bus and scooter.
The expertise exists
“Whether it’s a credit with Hopp or [the Strætó app] redirects you to the Hopp app, these are just technical implementations that need to happen when the conversation gets underway,” continued Sæunn. Strætó CEO Jóhannes Rúnarsson agrees. The expertise exists, he says, it’s only a matter of kick-starting the method.
Other e-scooters have entered the Icelandic market, however Hopp remains to be the scooter of alternative in Reykjavík, and in Iceland extra typically. Outside of the capital, the corporate additionally has fleets in Akranes, Akureyri, Egilsstaðir, Hveragerði, Reykjanesbær, Selfoss, and the Westman Islands. Abroad, it has e-scooters in three cities in Spain, in addition to Norway, Greece, and the Faroe Islands. Hopp data some 6,000 journeys a day on its scooters and Sæunn foresees a day the place there are e-scooter docks subsequent to each bus station in town. The firm now employs 50 individuals and is rising its fleet from 1,000 scooters across the capital to 3,000. It can also be trying to increase into close by Árbær and Grafarvogur, in addition to quite a lot of different cities in Iceland and overseas (Poland, Hungary, Italy) in the approaching 12 months.