About Shotl
Cities work better when people share their journeys
Shotl was founded in Barcelona, in 2017 on that one conviction. Since then our platform has connected passengers, transport operators and public authorities in towns, cities, campuses and valleys across Europe, Asia and Africa.
- Founded in Barcelona, Spain
- 2017
- Continents where services run today
- 3
- Platform — planning, apps, operations and data
- 1
What we believe
Public transport should follow people, not the other way round
Most places cannot justify a frequent fixed line — and most people cannot organise their lives around an hourly one. That gap is where car dependency grows, and where we work.
Our platform lets a bus, a minibus or a shared taxi behave like public transport that responds: passengers ask, an algorithm pools compatible journeys, and vehicles drive only where someone actually wants to go. Operators keep their fleets and their drivers; authorities keep their data and their service rules; passengers get a ride they can rely on.
We are deliberately not a ride-hailing company. We work with the public sector and its operators — never around them — because the goal is not to replace public transport but to extend it to the places and hours it never reached.
How we hold ourselves to that is written down: a code of ethics, an environmental policy, and commitments on data and people that travel with every deployment. Read them.
Financiación europea
Proyecto RED_ES 2020 (Nº Exp. 2020/0720/00099835) “Plataforma de transporte compartido bajo demanda para áreas con baja densidad de población”, para la construcción de un nuevo framework de la plataforma Shotl mediante el desarrollo de nuevos algoritmos de routing y asignación de usuarios, mediante la aplicación de técnicas de machine learning para la predicción de la demanda y los tiempos y el tráfico, así como mediante el desarrollo de una infraestructura de nuevos microservicios como los de pre-reserva, vehículo autónomo, integración MaaS, e integración en plataformas de pago. Este proyecto ha sido financiado en el marco de la convocatoria de ayudas C007/20-ED y ha sido cofinanciado por el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional.