From survey response to route-level insight
Trainways is not just a survey tool. It captures both conventional school travel data and mapped route experience.
Ask the right questions
Capture conventional school travel survey responses — mode, frequency, barriers, journey context and local programme questions.
Plot the journey
Participants show how they travel to school using a simple, intuitive route-plotting experience.
Understand the experience
Routes can be rated and commented on, showing where journeys feel safe, stressful, comfortable, difficult or unclear.
Turn responses into insight
Survey answers, route data, ratings and comments are made available through maps, dashboards, exports and reports.
Built for every way to school
However a child gets to the gate — on foot, by bike, dropped off or on the bus — Trainways captures the journey, the mode and how it felt, so no part of the school run is invisible.
Affordable, adaptable, actionable
school travel insight
Affordable
Accessible school travel insight without commissioning how any one school or local programme is set up or operates.
Adaptable
Configure schools, questions, mapping, reporting and outputs around local priorities and customer requirements.
Actionable
Configure around mode share, understand where groups travel, how they feel about those journeys and where improvements have the greatest impact.
Better decisions need better school journey data
School travel decisions are often made with partial evidence — mode-share snapshots, anecdotal feedback, isolated surveys or limited route-level insight. Trainways helps build a clearer picture of how people are travelling to school and what is shaping those choices.
The outputs active travel teams need
Insight that's usable, not just collected — explored visually, exported for analysis, and reported back to stakeholders in a practical format.
Powered by proven route insight
Trainways builds on Love to Ride's experience creating digital tools for active travel behaviour change, route feedback and transport insight. It uses the established route-rating technology and data infrastructure developed through Love to Ride's wider active travel platform.
Partners are not starting from a blank page: Trainways brings together survey design, journey mapping, route feedback, reporting and active travel expertise in one configurable proposition — informed by route-rating products such as Rate My Routes, adapted for the specific needs of school travel planning.
Informed by Rate My Routes
Configured around your schools,
questions and planning goals
A strategic proposition shaped around local needs — not a rigid, one-size-fits-all product.
Local survey questions
Configure questions around local priorities and programme needs.
Your schools & corridors
Focus on selected schools, corridors, regions or programmes.
Conventional + qualitative
Capture both conventional and qualitative travel data together.
Routes, ratings & comments
Combine mapped routes with comfort ratings and comments.
Planning-ready outputs
Produce outputs suited to planning, reporting and stakeholder engagement.
Repeated measurement
Support repeated measurement over time to track change.
From school travel evidence to safer streets
Trainways helps active travel teams move from fragmented school travel feedback to clearer, route-level evidence — a more practical way to understand journeys, support Safe Routes to School decisions and make the case for targeted improvements.
Ready to see how Trainways could work in your area?
Book a demo to explore how Trainways can help you collect school travel data, understand route-level experience and support better planning decisions.
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