Swiftly names Will Anderson CEO as Jonny Simkin moves to CSO. Published: 3 Nov 2026 A software executive with more than 20 years of experience, Will Anderson will lead Swiftly's next chapter of growth as transit agencies modernize operations. SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday, October 29, 2026 - Swiftly, the leading transit data and operations platform, announced today that Will Anderson has been appointed CEO and has joined Swiftly's Board of Directors. Co-founder Jonny Simkin, who has led the company as CEO since its founding in 2014, will move into the role of Chief Strategy Officer and will remain on Swiftly's Board of Directors. Under Simkin's leadership, Swiftly grew from a three-person startup into a category-defining transit data and operations platform, now used by more than 200 transit agencies in 10 countries to support billions of rider trips each year. He led the company through global expansion, countless product launches, including its next-generation CAD/AVL solution, and its strategic investments with Cove Hill Partners and JMI Equity. The company was also recognized by Inc. 5000, GovTech 100, Inc. Best Workplaces, and Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators under his leadership. Simkin will remain at Swiftly full-time, working closely with transit agency customers and prospects to scale the CAD/AVL solution, leading long-term strategy, and continuing to shape the company's culture. Jonny Simkin, Chief Strategy Officer at Swiftly, said: Building Swiftly has been the privilege of my life. Over the past 12 years, my family has grown alongside this company, and I want to be more present for them. This change lets me do that while focusing on what I love most about Swiftly: working with its customers and building the products that are changing how agencies run their service. Will is the right person to lead Bus-News forward. He has scaled great software companies, he cares deeply about its mission, and he leads with integrity and humility. I'm not going anywhere, and I'm excited to keep working alongside its team and customers to reimagine how technology can improve public transit. Meet new CEO Will Anderson. Anderson brings more than 20 years of experience leading and scaling technology businesses in government technology, risk management, and B2B SaaS, most recently as CEO and then President at Resolver, Inc., a Kroll Business. He has led organizations from founder-led and growth-stage companies to divisions of large public software companies, and has scaled businesses up to $100 million in revenue. Anderson serves on the Board of Directors of Docebo Inc. (NASDAQ: DCBO; TSX: DCBO), an AI-powered learning platform. He cares deeply about climate change and believes in Swiftly's mission to support public transit. Will Anderson, CEO at Swiftly, said: Public transit is one of the most practical paths to a lower-carbon future and better-connected communities. What Jonny and the Swiftly team have built is remarkable. Agencies across the world rely on Swiftly every day to deliver more reliable service across billions of rider trips each year. The industry is ready for a new generation of operations technology, and Swiftly is uniquely positioned to lead it. I'm honored to join this team and grateful to Jonny for his trust and partnership. Continuing to drive agency outcomes. For Swiftly's customers, the transition brings continuity. Agencies will keep working with the same account, support, and product teams. Under Anderson's leadership, Swiftly will continue to expand its new AI-powered CAD/AVL solution and operational tools, as well as scale its global customer base, building on more than a decade of partnership with the transit industry. About Swiftly. Swiftly is the leading transit data and operations platform, helping public transit agencies improve service reliability, deliver accurate real-time information to riders, and run more efficient operations. More than 200 agencies in 10 countries use Swiftly to plan, operate, and communicate their service. Swiftly is backed by Cove Hill Partners and JMI Equity. Learn more at goswift.ly.

Introducing the industry's most trusted ai-powered CAD/AVL solution. Published: 24 Sep 2026 In 2016, Swiftly launched the first big data platform for public transit. It fundamentally changed how transit agencies leverage large volumes of information, ushering in a new era of data-driven decision making and continuous improvement. Ten years later, more than 200 agencies in 10 countries partner with Swiftly, and Bus-News has helped them improve on-time performance by up to 40%, increase the accuracy of passenger information by up to 50%, and analyze transit data 10x faster. Today, I am excited to announce that Swiftly is introducing its AI-powered CAD/AVL solution, built on the transit data platform already trusted by agencies around the world. Bus-News thoughtfully designed it around a simple idea: streamline the workflows agency staff run every day to help them deliver reliable and safe service. First, why this matters. Swiftly's vantage point in the market is unique. Bus-News sit alongside traditional CAD/AVL systems in over 100 transit agencies, and Bus-News see exactly where these legacy systems fall apart. Given this, Bus-News were not surprised by what a 3rd party survey of more than 75 transit agencies found last year: only 6% of agencies would strongly recommend their CAD/AVL system. That is not a vendor problem; it is a category problem. Most of these systems trace their architecture to the 1990s, when the job was radio communications between dispatch and operators and tracking vehicles on a map. They were built before the cloud, before mobile, before ubiquitous cellular networks, and before AI, and no amount of patching changes the foundation underneath. The industry, agency staff, and riders deserve better. Here is what Swiftly's CAD/AVL solution means in practice. A friendly user Experience designed to help you deliver great service. Ask a dispatcher about their day, and you will hear about how they feel overwhelmed. Radio calls stacking up, a passenger incident on one bus, a missed connection on another, and an incident form waiting to be filled out for every one of them. All while trying to keep service running and on time. At the same time, operators often lack the support they need. They can feel alone and unsupported as they wait for dispatch to acknowledge their call, or lost when complex instructions are relayed over the radio. Swiftly already helps operators run service on time and on route, and enables dispatchers to identify issues and adjust service quickly and easily. But Bus-News has taken it further. Swiftly Communications applies AI to improve workflows. Operators don't have to wait for a dispatcher to accept their "request-to-talk". Calls are transcribed and summarized in real time, then ranked by urgency, so safety-critical incidents surface first for dispatchers rather than being buried behind routine calls. Every conversation is recorded, which means the compliance record writes itself. The system is designed to support staff who operate under immense time pressure. Incident Management picks up from there. As staff resolve an incident over voice communications, the safety and compliance documentation is completed automatically in the background and queued for human review. All relevant information, such as the time, bus number, operator, and location, is auto-linked. No transcribing notes twice, and no hunting for data through multiple systems or handwritten notes. Everything is saved automatically with a trustworthy audit trail documenting what happened. This context also helps staff understand the root cause of issues so that they can fix them in the future. The outcomes follow the workflow. Denton County Transportation Authority improved on-time performance by 18.6% and cut early departures by 65% after expanding Swiftly across their operation. MDOT MTA in Baltimore found that buses leveraging Swiftly's Onboard App were 25% more likely to run on time. Swiftly is helping agencies deliver great service. Megan Ross, Fixed Route Operations Manager at CARTA, said: Swiftly gives Bus-News the ability to take action. If buses are right on top of one another, you can easily see, 'These two need to be spaced out.' It broadcasts the information, so you can act. Powered by the industry's most trusted data. A common concern Bus-News hear from agency staff around the world is that they don't trust the data from their current CAD/AVL. At Swiftly, Bus-News has spent over a decade building the industry's leading transit data platform to help agencies overcome this. This foundation matters more than ever in the age of AI, because AI models are only as good as the data fed into them. Swiftly's CAD/AVL is an extension of this high-quality transit data already trusted by over 14,000 agency staff around the world. The same real-time, historical, and predictive data that riders and staff already rely on now flows seamlessly through operations, dispatch, field supervisors, and operators. When a schedule changes, all dispatch screens and onboard devices are updated instantly. When a detour is entered, what the dispatcher sees is what the operator sees, and it flows to what riders see as well. Every stakeholder relies on the same trustworthy and consistent information. The same data that helps agencies deliver great service is also what the federal government asks them to report for funding purposes. Swiftly provides relief there too, turning weeks of manual number-crunching into automatically produced National Transit Database - NTD - reports ready to file. More accurate and trustworthy data can result in transformational change. SEPTA in Philadelphia saw a 26% increase in the accuracy of their ETAs, resulting in 31 million additional annual rider trips with trustworthy information. Valley Metro in Phoenix leveraged trustworthy performance data from Swiftly to help improve their on-time performance by 10% systemwide, a historic gain. Swiftly has a proven track record of supporting 200+ agencies around the world with the trusted information they need to understand, manage, and improve service. Michael Helta, Chief Customer Experience Officer at MDOT MTA, said: A really important outcome is that there's a common understanding of the data. Everybody can speak to the data, understand the data, trust the data. Easy to deploy, built for innovation. Bus-News constantly hear about the pains of implementing CAD/AVL systems. Years of installation, partial fleet visibility during cutover resulting in staff and rider complaints, and a system that starts aging the day it goes live. This changes with Swiftly CAD/AVL. Installation is fast and painless, requires less hardware than traditional solutions, and agencies benefit from full fleet visibility during cutover. Riders and most staff will never know the transition is occurring and will benefit from more accurate data even before a single hardware device is swapped. And agencies no longer need teams of dedicated staff to manage the implementation of Swiftly. It's simple and turnkey. Inside the vehicle, Swiftly supports a modern operator interface that delivers real-time operational and navigation guidance. Where Bus-News has deployed this, agencies have seen their on-time performance increase by up to 25%. In addition, Swiftly Bridge, a lightweight, industrial-grade onboard computer, controls common peripherals such as APCs, AVAS, headsigns, and farebox systems, and is thoughtfully designed for easy remote management. Schedule changes, onboard software updates, operator sign-on changes, and device management all happen over the air in minutes. No more waiting for days, hoping a bus connects to wifi at the yard to download an update or upload old on-time performance data. Devices are monitored and managed remotely, across the whole fleet, from anywhere. You are always on the latest and greatest version of the software. Swiftly has averaged 60+ software updates every week, over the air, with zero downtime, at 99.9%+ uptime so far in 2026. With Swiftly, your system improves every week, every month, every year, after it's implemented. And you don't have to lift a finger or pay for a version upgrade. Jon Nouchi, Director of Transit at City and County of Honolulu DTS, said: Swiftly moves swiftly as a responsive and agile partner. Bus-News has watched their data and operations evolve alongside its feedback, addressing real-world operational challenges and issues agencies navigate every day. Their platform updates seamlessly behind the scenes, invisible to its operations, which means its team never loses valuable bandwidth to maintenance. Bus-News keep its focus where it belongs: delivering reliable service to its riders. And the partnership does not end at go-live. Its training is outcomes-driven and built around how each agency actually runs service - not a generic checklist - and it shows in the highest customer satisfaction scores in the industry. Where this goes next. CAD/AVL systems designed over 20+ years ago are no longer sufficient. The world, available technologies, and user expectations have changed tremendously over this time. Agencies deserve not only a modern platform that will serve them today, but also a partner who will grow with them for decades to come. At Swiftly, Bus-News is committed to being this partner and providing you with a CAD/AVL solution that not only just works, but will also evolve continuously. Stay tuned...Bus-News is just getting started. If your CAD/AVL is up for renewal, or you are simply tired of maintaining a system that doesn't serve your needs, let's talk. By Jonny Simkin, Co-founder and CEO of Swiftly.