Name

INSOFT RESEARCH INC.

Legal name

INSOFT RESEARCH inc.

Website

https://insoftresearch.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Transit Analytics Software

NAICS

Interurban and Rural Bus Transportation (48521)

SIC

Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Data Integration, APIs & Telematics Data Platforms (TLABAJAM)

Keywords

• Automatic passenger counting
• Transit data analytics
• Public transit software
• Fleet visualization software
• Traffic analysis systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Clarke City

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing and Implementation: Insoft Research provides turnkey software solutions tailored to client needs, including software design, development, and implementation services. The company offers architectural design services during software implementation to ensure maximum integration and customization.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

INSOFT RESEARCH INC. designs, develops, and implements software for the public-transit industry, including automatic passenger counting (APC) data analysis, real-time fleet visualization, scheduling pattern computation, journey-time analytics, vehicle-occupancy monitoring, traffic-light priority, mobile-data-terminal data collection, and energy consumption reporting. Offerings are sold as named software products (e.g., WebReports NG, Visual Fleet, DiagnoseKit, Pattern NG, Passenger Journey, Real-time Occupancy, Priofeux, GSD, Energy Analyzer) and tailored to each transit agency's CAD/AVL environment, with integrations to industry standards such as GTFS, Giro HASTUS, OrbCAD AVL, and Trapeze.

Product overview

Insoft Research offers a comprehensive suite of transit management software solutions designed for transit agencies to analyze passenger counting and traffic data. The core portfolio includes WebReports NG as the primary analytics and reporting platform, Visual Fleet for real-time fleet visualization, and DiagnoseKit for APC equipment diagnostics. Pattern NG serves as the data processing engine that integrates with industry-standard transit scheduling formats. Additional specialized modules include Passenger Journey for origin-destination tracking, Real-time Occupancy for live capacity monitoring, Priofeux for traffic light priority optimization, GSD for garage communication management, and Energy Analyzer for fleet energy consumption analysis. The solutions are designed in-house at the company's Quebec City office and offer turnkey integration for transit operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• WebReports NG: A powerful and flexible web reporting tool providing detailed presentation of transit operations with tables, graphs, and performance reports (KPIs) for ridership, productivity, reliability, and diagnostics analysis.
• Visual Fleet
• DiagnoseKit
• Patterns NG
• Passenger Journey
• Priofeux
• GSD (Garage Server Deamon)
• Energy Analyzer

Products and services

• WebReports NG Web-based analytics and reporting tool that turns automatic passenger counting (APC) and AVL data into ridership, revenue-hour, and operational reports for transit agencies.
• Visual Fleet Real-time fleet visualization application that shows the live position and status of transit vehicles using GPS/AVL data.
• DiagnoseKit Diagnostics and data-validation toolkit used to validate and quality-check automatic passenger counting (APC) data feeds before they are used for reporting.
• Pattern NG Software that computes and analyzes transit scheduling patterns based on APC and schedule data, supporting service planning and run-cutting workflows.
• Passenger Journey Journey-time measurement and analysis software that calculates passenger trip times across the transit network using AVL/APC data, supporting on-time-performance and service reliability reporting.
• Real-time Occupancy Real-time and historical vehicle occupancy module that monitors passenger load on transit vehicles using APC sensor data, supporting load management and passenger information use cases.
• Priofeux Traffic-light priority application that uses GPS positioning and AVL data to request signal priority for transit vehicles at intersections.
• GSD (Garage Server Daemon) Server-side component that collects, stores, and forwards mobile data terminal (MDT/MDC) data from buses in the garage, providing the raw data ingestion layer for downstream APC and AVL analytics.
• Energy Analyzer Energy consumption reporting and analytics tool that calculates fuel/energy use across a transit fleet, supporting cost and efficiency reporting.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability3 records

Feature9 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Optibus: Cloud-native AI-driven transit scheduling and operations platform, increasingly overlapping with Insoft's Patterns NG and route-optimization capabilities with a SaaS delivery model.
• Padam Mobility: Software vendor for on-demand transit, fixed routes, and passenger information — emerging competitive overlap with Insoft's Visual Fleet and WebReports NG in smaller and mid-sized agencies.
• Spare Labs: Mobility-as-a-Service and microtransit platform with analytics and real-time visualization features that overlap with Insoft's passenger-information and ridership-analytics modules.

Others

• Cubic Transportation Systems: Large incumbent delivering fare collection, real-time passenger information, and transit analytics to major North American agencies; broader portfolio competes with Insoft's Visual Fleet and WebReports NG.

Broad incumbents

• INIT Innovations in Transportation: Global provider of integrated ITS solutions for public transit, including APC, CAD/AVL, and passenger information — competing with Insoft's full product portfolio at larger municipal and regional agencies.
• Conduent Transportation: Major North American transit-services vendor offering fare collection, transit analytics, and CAD/AVL — overlapping with Insoft's reporting and real-time visualization offerings at scale.
• Trapeze Group (Modaxo / Volaris): A leading enterprise transit-software suite covering scheduling, APC, CAD/AVL, and analytics, directly competitive with Insoft's Patterns NG and WebReports NG within larger transit-agency procurements.
• Iteris: Provider of smart-transportation infrastructure and analytics, including transit-priority signal systems analogous to Insoft's Priofeux traffic-light-priority product.

Direct peers

• GIRO (HASTUS): Quebec-based transit scheduling and operations software vendor whose HASTUS export format Insoft integrates with; serves the same North American transit-agency customer base with overlapping analytics and optimization capabilities.
• Ecolane: Provider of paratransit and fixed-route transit management software with scheduling and reporting capabilities that overlap with Insoft's analytics, scheduling, and ridership-reporting product lines.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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