Optibus

Optibus is an Israeli software company that builds an AI-based platform for public transit planning and scheduling. The company was founded in Tel Aviv by Amos Haggiag and Eitan Yanovsky. Optibus serves bus and rail operators, helping them automate the creation of timetables, crew schedules, and vehicle assignments — work that was historically done manually or with legacy software.

The Optibus platform addresses the combinatorial optimization problem at the heart of public transit operations: given a fixed network of routes, how do you assign vehicles and drivers to shifts in a way that meets service requirements while minimizing cost? Buyers are typically planning and operations teams inside public transit agencies and private bus operators. The product is sold via enterprise contracts, not self-serve. The technical moat is rooted in operations research and constraint-based optimization applied to large-scale scheduling problems.

Optibus competes in the transit scheduling software space, where legacy vendors such as INIT and Trapeze Group (part of Modaxo) have held entrenched positions for decades. Optibus differentiates by offering a cloud-native, SaaS-delivered architecture in a market that has historically run on on-premise systems. The broader tailwind is the global push by cities to electrify and restructure public transit networks, which forces agencies to re-plan routes and schedules more frequently than legacy tools were designed to handle.

Optibus is headquartered in Tel Aviv. The founding team is Israeli, and the core R&D function operates in Israel.