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NEW MAIOR CUSTOMER IN NEW ZEALAND

NEW MAIOR CUSTOMER IN NEW ZEALAND

First MAIOR customer in Oceania. The Waikato Regional Council of northern New Zealand will use the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite to simplify and increase the efficiency of planning bus services for more than 4 million annual passengers.

The MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite will support the authority in managing the transportation network, planning routes, designing optimized timetables, optimizing vehicle blocks, and integrating with the ticketing system.

 








NEW BLOG

NEW BLOG

MAIOR's blog is where you can learn articles about our solutions, interviews with our team members and customers, local public transportation industry news, best practices, and testimonials.

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NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL

NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL

The official MAIOR YouTube Channel brings you to the very heart of MAIOR company and scheduling software solutions.

Discover all the exclusive content, including solutions videos, interviews, case studies, curiosities, and more!

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NEW MAIOR CUSTOMER IN FINLAND

NEW MAIOR CUSTOMER IN FINLAND

MAIOR conquers a new customer in Finland. The transit agency of the city of Tampere, Regional Transport, will use the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite to simplify and increase the efficiency of bus and tram services planning.

The MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite will help the agency to manage the public transportation network, to plan routes, to optimize timetables, to plan vehicle blocks, and to plan electric vehicle services. The system will be used also as a Contract Management System to calculate operators’ compensation.








KENTUCKY SELECTS THE MAIOR SUITE

KENTUCKY SELECTS THE MAIOR SUITE

MAIOR continues its expansion across the U.S. thanks to our parent company Clever Devices. TANK, the Transit Authority of Northern Kentucky, will leverage various modules of the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite to plan, schedule and ultimately optimize their timetables, vehicle and driver schedules, driver assignment, and bidding.

“It is thanks to Clever Devices’ leadership that MAIOR has now greater growth opportunities in the U.S.”, said Luigi Cuseo, Chief Commercial Officer at MAIOR, “and we are confident that TANK will also sustainably improve their service planning and scheduling with the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite”.








NEW BRAND IDENTITY

NEW BRAND IDENTITY

After 30 years, MAIOR says goodbye to its iconic logo to welcome a new, innovative, and modern corporate brand identity.

The change of our logo responds to the desire to reflect the evolution, growth, and changes planned by MAIOR to strengthen its position as leading designer and developer of scheduling solutions at the international level.

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MAIOR CELEBRATES 30 YEARS

MAIOR CELEBRATES 30 YEARS

MAIOR celebrates 30 years of activity in the design and development of advanced software solutions for the transportation industry.

Founded in 1989 by a group of professors of operational research at the University of Pisa, MAIOR is today a leading company in the public transportation sector in Italy, with customers in North America, Europe, and Asia.

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MAIOR SCHOOL 2019

MAIOR SCHOOL 2019

The MAIOR School 2019 will take place in March at MAIOR’s new Headquarters in Florence.

 Sessions and available dates:

  • Planning: March 5 and 7, 2019
  • Scheduling: March 12 and 14, 2019
  • Management (New!): March 19 and 21, 2019
  • Information: March 26 and 28, 2019








ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL USER MEETING

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL USER MEETING

The User Meeting, the annual conference dedicated to our customers, is once again confirmed in its thirteenth edition as an event that attracts over 145 mobility experts from over 47 companies worldwide.

The MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite confirms itself as an ever more flexible and evolved tool, indispensable for transit agencies that aim to plan their services more efficiently, reducing their operational costs and improving their sustainability, yet those that have already adopted electrical vehicles in their fleet.








MAIOR GROWS: NEW OFFICE IN FLORENCE

MAIOR GROWS: NEW OFFICE IN FLORENCE

MAIOR is pleased to announce that the Florence office moved to its new premises in Via Atto Vannucci, 7.​

The new office is larger and has been completely renovated to meet new business needs due to the recent staff's growth. “We’re truly excited about the growth our organization is experiencing, and we believe our new office provides our employees with the space they need to continue to move our company forward in promising new directions”, ​declared Leopoldo Girardi, CEO of MAIOR.








MAIOR SCHOOL 2018

MAIOR SCHOOL 2018

This year’s sessions and dates are:

  • Scheduling – basic: May 3 and 10, 2018
  • Rostering: May 8 and 9, 2018
  • Scheduling – advanced (new!): May 15 and 16, 2018
  • Planning (new!): May 22 and 31, 2018
  • Information (new!): May 29, 2018








XII USER MEETING: ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL EVENT!

XII USER MEETING: ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL EVENT!

The User Meeting is once again affirmed as a unique event that brings together over 150 mobility experts from over 50 companies.

Closing the meeting, MAIOR’s CEO, Leopoldo Girardi, said: “Today we showed our customers the new opportunities and benefits that come from both the development of our MAIOR suite and from MAIOR’s acquisition by Clever Devices. Not only everything will run in continuity with the past, but we have now the opportunity to offer leading North American ITS solutions to the Italian and European markets.”








MAIOR JOINS CLEVER DEVICES

MAIOR JOINS CLEVER DEVICES

The North American transportation technology leader, Clever Devices, and the leading Italian scheduling company, MAIOR, join forces to provide enhanced solutions for public transportation agencies around the world.

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MAIOR SCHOOL 2017

MAIOR SCHOOL 2017

MAIOR School is repeating its success again this year! A few days after all seats were opened for the scheduled courses, every last slot was sold out. More than 40 participants will meet in Florence in April and May and will be discussing topics such as:

  • Techniques and approaches of run simulation using the optimization algorithms of Scheduling
  • Best management practices for the programmed and daily service with Rostering








AIRO ANNUAL CONFERENCE

AIRO ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The Annual Conference of the Italian Operations Research Society conference will address all areas of Operations Research, focusing on optimization models and algorithms concerning energy, environment, and sustainability.

MAIOR, the main sponsor of the Conference, will lead the Session "Real-time management in Public Transportation". Introducing the Disruption Manager, an innovative real-time tool to automatically manage all the events that may generate service delays and irregularity, MAIOR takes a step forward in helping Control Room Operators and Transit Schedulers maintain the service as regular as possible.








UITP 2015: INTERNATIONAL APPRECIATION FOR MAIOR

UITP 2015: INTERNATIONAL APPRECIATION FOR MAIOR

Excellent results obtained by MAIOR at the UITP World Congress and Exhibition 2015 held in Milan on 8, 9 and 10 June. The MAIOR booth was visited by delegations coming from several countries, among the others, Israel, Greece, Poland, England, Serbia, Spain, Germany, Russia, America and of course Italy. This confirms the market’s interest in the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite, one of the most advanced software suites for public transport management and optimization. A special interest was raised by the speech given by Leopoldo Girardi, General Manager at MAIOR, on the topic of the Disruption Management in public transport during the Focus Session entitled “Data for better Operations and Planning".








NEW CONTRACTS IN FINLAND

NEW CONTRACTS IN FINLAND

The Finnish cities of Lahti and Jyväskylä have chosen the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite for the planning and scheduling of public transportation services and for issuing printed timetables.

The projects have been successfully deployed in less than 3 months. These projects are part of a significant renovation for the Finnish public transportation, where municipalities are taking a more active role in managing private contractors.








PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DMS IN IRELAND

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION DMS IN IRELAND

MAIOR has been recently awarded for a contract to supply a new Data Management System (DMS) for the National Transport Authority of Ireland (NTA).

The solution will be based on a central data repository that will collect and integrate the service planning and AVM data of the public transport of buses and rail operators in Dublin. The Business Intelligence solution will facilitate the monitoring and regulate the performance of bus services operated under public service contracts in Ireland through reports and costing tools to improve the service quality.








SCHOOL ON COLUMN GENERATION IN PARIS

SCHOOL ON COLUMN GENERATION IN PARIS

The School on Column Generation in Paris took place from the 10th to the 14th March.

MAIOR participated in this third edition to guarantee that our state-of-the-art solutions create optimized vehicle and crew schedules for our customers.








THE ITALIAN BEST PRACTICES AT IT-TRANS 2014

THE ITALIAN BEST PRACTICES AT IT-TRANS 2014

On Thursday, 20th February MAIOR will present at IT-TRANS, in the frame of the Market Updates Session, a talk entitled: “Optimizing the daily management of vehicles and personnel of a public transport company: the success story of the MAIOR solution implemented at ATAC in Rome”.

The presentation will introduce the key features of the VDAP (Vehicle and Driver Assignment Program) solution and will describe the results achieved in ATAC, the largest transit operator in Italy, in terms of optimization of the resources, simplification of the data flows and reduction of the operational costs.








THE LARGEST AGENCY IN TUSCANY CHOOSES MAIOR

THE LARGEST AGENCY IN TUSCANY CHOOSES MAIOR

CTT NORD, the largest public transport company of the Tuscan region, is the result of a corporate merge of transit providers of Livorno, Pisa, Lucca, and Prato. CTT NORD has chosen the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite to plan, optimize and manage the public transportation service.

The MAIOR suite will help CTT NORD to unify the various planning phases of each province, to optimize the service by mixing urban, extra-urban, and sub-urban services to manage different labor-union contracts simultaneously, to integrate current external systems with the new CAD/AVL system.








ROME’S DAILY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION AS ORACLE SUCCESS STORY

ROME’S DAILY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION AS ORACLE SUCCESS STORY

The innovative, web-based, and database-centric solution for Vehicle and Driver Assignment, becomes an Oracle success story. The solution enhances the daily management of vehicles and personnel, and has been successfully deployed at ATAC, the public transportation provider in Rome.








CYCLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013 IN FLORENCE

CYCLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013 IN FLORENCE

At the first Cycling World Championship in Florence, the three main public transit operators, ATAF, BusItalia Sita Nord, and Li-nea, completely rescheduled their services with the MAIOR Transit Scheduling Suite. They could easily manage detours, new schedules, and new rosters to satisfy the new mobility demand during the event.

ATAF declares that with the MAIOR suite they have rescheduled about 4.700 driver duties and 2.100 vehicle blocks and managed 2.890 runs more than in standard service.