Ontra Mobility is founded by two former Googler engineers with PhDs in operations research. Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. The founders developed the software that powered MARTA Reach in Atlanta, GA and CAT SMART in Savannah, GA.
Platform for planning and operating multimodal transit systems
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### Platform for planning and operating multimodal transit systems

Ontra Mobility is founded by two former Googler engineers with PhDs in operations research. Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. The founders developed the software that powered MARTA Reach in Atlanta, GA and CAT SMART in Savannah, GA.



Ontra Mobility

Founded:2023

Team Size:2

Location:New York

### Active Founders

### Anthony Trasatti, Founder

Founder at Ontra Mobility



### Connor Riley, Founder

Founder Ontra Mobility. Xoogler, PhD from @GeorgiaTechISyE. Formerly @UMIOE and @UConn



### Company Launches

[### Ontra Mobility - Increasing ridership for transit agencies](

**tldr:** [Ontra]( helps cities and transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization.

**🚀 Introduction**
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Hey everyone! We’re Anthony and Connor, aka the [Ontra Mobility]( team, and we’re revolutionizing how people move.

**❗ The Problem**
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Transit agencies in the U.S. are facing massive budget shortfalls (up to $3B). Agencies need to adapt their transit systems more quickly to meet the demands of our evolving cities. Work from home led to a large drop in ridership, which is problematic for train and bus routes, which have high fixed costs. Cutting lines or reducing frequency further impacts ridership - transit agencies need a different solution.

**💡 The Solution**
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Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. Our platform optimizes cost and rider experience by designing high-frequency bus routes and ridesharing zones, where our algorithms adapt routes to demand in real time.

**⚙️ How It Works**
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Ontra analyzes information about where people live, how they've traveled in the past, and the existing transit system to figure out the best way to redesign the transit network.

Once the improvements are made, Ontra Mobility plans rider journeys in real-time with the best combination of transit options available, whether it’s a train, bus, bike, or agency-operated on-demand. Our system can handle thousands of ridesharing requests per minute – efficiently assigning riders to optimal routes.

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**🚌 What’s New**
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*   Our transit network design application generates bus routes and micro-transit zones
*   Seamless multimodal journeys – our algorithm synchronizes transfers between on-demand and fixed-route

**🎓 The Team**
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Anthony and Connor are both former Google engineers with PhDs in [operations]( [research]( Prior to joining YC, they worked on [MARTA Reach]( in Atlanta, GA, and [CAT Smart]( in Savannah, GA.

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    Quick blurb to copy and paste: [Ontra Mobility]( is founded by two former Google engineers with PhDs in [operations]( [research]( Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. The founders developed the software that powered [MARTA Reach]( in Atlanta, GA and [CAT Smart]( in Savannah, GA.
    

### Hear from the founders

#### How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)

Connor and Anthony met at Georgia Tech where they graduated with PhDs in operations research with a focus on optimization for public transit systems. Their publications have been cited over 150 times, appearing in IJACI and Transportation Science. Together, they have over a decade of experience in optimization of transit systems. While at Georgia Tech, they developed and managed full-stack deployments of MARTA Reach ([ a public on-demand ride-sharing service in Atlanta, GA, and the SMART Transit pilot ([ in Savannah, GA.

### YC S24 Application Video
