Sectors

Travel & Transport

Moving millions of people, safely.

From an app used by 149m+ passengers a year to public transport at national scale.

  • ISO 27001
  • AWS Partner
  • WCAG 2.2 AA
  • GDPR by design
A busy commuter train carriage, passengers standing and holding the overhead rails.

Trusted across travel & transport

  • Irish Rail
  • SISCOG
  • Translink
  • Bus Éireann
  • Expressway
  • Ryanair

Connecting passengers, operators and networks through smarter digital experiences.

We work with transport operators, national rail networks, airlines and mobility providers to design and build digital products that keep passengers informed, journeys running smoothly and operations performing at scale.

Travel & transport challenges

Fragmented passenger and operational data. Timetables, ticketing, real-time tracking and customer communications often live in separate systems that don’t talk to each other, creating friction for passengers and operational blind spots for teams.

Legacy infrastructure under pressure. Ageing platforms struggle to handle peak demand, rush hours, major events, weather disruptions, and make it difficult to adopt modern mobile, API-first or cloud-native approaches without a significant modernisation programme.

Rising passenger expectations. Travellers now expect real-time information, seamless multimodal journeys and mobile-first experiences. Operators that can’t deliver these risk losing passengers to competitors who can.

Data that isn’t being used. Transport networks generate enormous volumes of operational data, but much of it is siloed, unstructured or inaccessible. Unlocking it could transform scheduling, maintenance, safety and customer experience.

Digital capability gaps. Many transport organisations lack in-house expertise in modern software delivery, UX design or cloud infrastructure, making it hard to build and maintain the digital products their customers and operations demand.

What success looks like

  • A unified passenger experience. Plan, book, track and get support across modes and channels through a single, intuitive interface built for real journeys.
  • Resilient, scalable platforms. Modern cloud infrastructure that handles peak demand gracefully without downtime or degraded performance.
  • Operational insight at your fingertips. Integrated data pipelines giving operators a real-time view of fleet performance, passenger flow and service quality.
  • A platform built to evolve, API-first architecture, modular design and continuous improvement, so your digital products grow with your network without expensive rebuilds.

Why Marino Software?

Proven at national scale. We’ve delivered digital products for Iarnród Éireann and other national transport bodies, giving us first-hand understanding of the operational complexity, regulatory constraints and public accountability that comes with the territory.

Passenger-first design. We put real traveller needs at the centre of every product decision, conducting user research, accessibility audits and iterative testing to ensure your digital services are genuinely useful across all audiences.

Cloud, integration and modernisation expertise. From AWS cloud migrations to API integrations connecting ticketing, tracking and operations platforms, we bring the technical depth to modernise legacy systems without disrupting live services.

Fast to market, built to last. We combine agile delivery with rigorous quality assurance to ship robust, well-tested products quickly, then stay embedded with your team to iterate and improve over the long term.

Secure, reliable, compliant. ISO 27001 certified and an AWS Public Sector Partner, we operate to the highest standards of security and resilience, giving transport operators the confidence to entrust us with business-critical systems.

More work in travel & transport

Selected projects.

Expressway intercity coach in branded livery, evoking the customer journey redesign.

Expressway

Expressway customer journey redesign

Marino partnered with Expressway to strategically design and plan their digital and on-boarding experience. Comprehensive user research and ideation identified key customer pain points and transformed them into opportunities, improving customer experience, enhancing operational efficiencies, and increasing revenue.

Let's talk.

Remote, on-site, or in Glasnevin, Dublin. We start with your customer and work back. You'll leave with a clearer picture of the next move, whether or not it's with us.