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This impact is even greater in developing cities . “ In first-world regions , over 98 percent of journeys go according to plan but in an emerging market , that number is only 50 percent , which means that a primary need as a commuter is to have at least three backup plans .” For Devin , this was a meaningful problem to tackle as it affects approximately three billion people and is what his company specializes in . “ There are already apps like Citymapper , Transit , and Moovit that are contributing significantly to secure a commuter ’ s plan A . However , we want to strengthen developing cities because that ’ s where one of the biggest disparities in the economies lies .”
Alongside his data development , the tech-savvy CEO and his team created the app Rumbo , which operates similarly to apps like Citymapper found in developed regions . Devin shares that creating these sorts of solutions is the source of his passion for software engineering . “ I genuinely love
the act of thinking about the product ; how are we meeting individual needs ? How can we get closer to meeting people where they are and materially improve their daily experience ? If you had to travel five hours every day , being able to give you back even ten minutes of your time , or reducing your level of anxiety around whether your bus is coming , it makes a massive difference .”
For those living in developed cities , each public transport route relies on a corpus of information constantly being managed by the city or government . “ In our case , while we would ’ ve loved to start with the consumer solution , what we need to solve first is the absence of data infrastructure across global markets , because in developing cities that data is not available in the first instance . That ’ s something that we have worked on since we started in 2015 .”
Data at WhereIsMyTransport propels the business forward . “ Our data management platform is a collection of products that
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