Campus travel is a daily decision, not a one-off event. Staff and students need options that fit lectures, shifts, budgets, and late finishes. If those options are scattered, the default is often a single-occupancy car journey or an expensive ticket bought at the last minute.

Through the custom-built CommuteUOM app, STAXY is helping the University of Manchester make staff and student travel more sustainable, simple, accessible, and affordable.

A single place for every relevant mode

CommuteUOM brings the university’s travel offer together. Instead of hunting across operator sites and PDF guides, people can see the journeys that actually apply to them, including discounts and incentives in the Greater Manchester area.

• Personal travel guides that surface discounts and local incentives

• Department-focused active travel months to reward cycling and walking

• Support for club and society travel to training, fixtures, and events

Why a bespoke app mattered here

The University of Manchester needed a fully tailored experience, with its own branding and a travel product designed around campus life. That is one of the two ways STAXY delivers: a standalone bespoke app, or an integration into an organisation’s existing website and app.

Sustainable travel at a university only works if it fits real student and staff life, not an ideal timetable.

The app also generates travel data the university can actually use: unique insight into how people move, which modes they choose, and where better provision or promotion would make the biggest difference.