CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORIES

Identifying and validating a groundbreaking idea

A multi-modal digital ambition to help double public transport usage across Wales by 2030

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The Challenge

Transport for Wales has set itself one of the most ambitious goals in UK public transport: doubling public transport usage across Wales by 2030. A target that big can't be hit through incremental optimisation alone, it asks for new propositions that change how people actually move around the country.

But before any of those propositions can be built, there is a harder question to answer first. What do public transport users in Wales genuinely need, and which of the many possible ideas is worth investing serious time and money behind?

With limited time, real business constraints to work within, and a high bar for evidence, Transport for Wales needed a disciplined way to identify the right idea and validate it with the people it would ultimately serve.

 

Our approach

We ran a short, sharp engagement designed to do three things in parallel: understand the unmet needs of public transport users across Wales, generate a strong shortlist of ideas to address them, and test the most promising of those ideas for desirability with the Welsh public.

From there we shaped a product strategy and a measurement framework so Transport for Wales would know not only what to build, but what success looks like once it is live.

We closed the engagement by recommending an approach to deliver the solution rapidly within the realities of the business, alongside a validated product roadmap to guide what comes next.

 

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The results

The engagement landed Transport for Wales with a single, innovative multi-modal digital solution, identified and validated directly with the Welsh public who will use it.

Backed by a clear product strategy, a measurement framework and a roadmap, the team has an evidence-based foundation to invest behind and a credible path to making meaningful headway towards the 2030 ambition.

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