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Orange Bus drives forward with Nexus

A North East digital agency has won two major contracts with transport operator Nexus.

Orange Bus, will now revamp the Nexus website as the transport operator looks to apply new technology to improve services and schedules for customers.

The move means that bus and metro customers will be able to check the status of transport and live travel news online.

Orange Bus co-founder Mike Parker said: “To be able to link all means of public transport into real-time would help create a more efficient service and an easy-to-use planning guide for customers.

“We have many more exciting ideas and innovative plans utilising new digital technologies which we plan to develop over the next few years so we hope to continue our relationship with Nexus.”

The new website and content management system (CMS) will be built on top of the open source Drupal platform and will provide many new applications including destination-related information such as restaurants and local attractions.

Nexus communications director Andy Bairstow, Said: “Nexus.org.uk is already the leading travel site for the region and we want to keep ahead of the expectations of our users. The number of people visiting the our website has grown 40% in the last two years as people use nexus.org.uk not only from home but also from smart phones as they travel.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .