Group commuting
The site can hire. The car park can’t.
Airports, industrial estates and campuses move thousands of people a day across ground the public network barely touches. This is what flexible transport does on sites like yours.
Does this sound familiar?
Four problems site and mobility managers keep running into
Office campus, factory or university — these four come up in almost every first conversation. Each one has the same answer.
- 01“We can hire, but we can’t park”Headcount is capped by tarmac, and every new space costs like construction.Raise how many people the site can receive
- 02“Seventy pool cars for a handful of trips”Vehicles owned, insured and parked so that people can cross the site.Replace a parked fleet with a moving one
- 03“The 06:00 shift has no bus”The hours that matter most are the hours the network thins out.Cover the hours the public network gives up on
- 04“Finance asks what we got for it”A mobility budget with no trip data behind it is the first line cut at review.Report the scheme in the language of the budget
The answer
Get your people to work, class and the station on time
Move staff and students between homes, gates, buildings and stations on shared vehicles that follow requests instead of a fixed loop. That is group commuting, open only to the people you choose.
Set it up your way
- Go straight from door to buildingRun vehicles directly between buildings across the site or the city, not around a loop.
- Feed the trains and busesPick staff up at the stations and stops they already use, so the shuttle feeds public transport.
- Decide who can rideUse registration and access codes to control who can book, and which stops they can reach.
How it works
How the service actually runs
One mechanism sits behind every service: a request comes in, the engine pools it, the driver is guided, the operator supervises.
FAQ
The questions we hear most
Does this replace our pool cars or our staff bus?
Either, and often both. Pooled on-demand shuttles cover the internal movement pool cars do today, and they replace fixed staff buses that run near-empty outside the main shift peaks.
How does it handle rotating shifts?
Pickup windows are anchored to shift start and end times rather than to a timetable, nights and weekends included. Recurring trips can be programmed for a whole rota in one action.
Can several employers on one park share a service?
Yes. Business parks and industrial estates commonly run a single service across employers, with usage and cost reported per organisation.
Do staff need a separate app?
They use one app, which can carry your brand. Access is tied to their work identity, so only eligible staff can book and trips can be attributed to cost centres.
What can we report for ESG?
Trips, occupancy, kilometres and avoided single-occupancy car journeys are reported continuously and export into your own ESG or mobility reporting.
Who operates the vehicles?
Whoever does today — your own fleet and drivers, a contracted operator, or a mix. Shotl runs the service; it does not own the vehicles.
