Denver Regional Transportation District operationalizes accessible ride logistics with Dash

The Denver RTD helps over 3 million people in Colorado get where they need to go using several different web applications. For passengers with disabilities, The RTD’s Access-A-Ride service is a boon to the most vulnerable Coloradans. The app helps these people get to work, school, and their loved ones. When Incumbent software vendors tried and failed to deliver unique specifications, RTD developers felt Dash empowered them to build out their own solution.

The team was able to comply with WCAG 2.x standards, build unique features supporting the unique needs of their customers, and operate very quickly, often able to push changes to production the same day.

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• A U.S. metropolitan transportation authority rapidly produces a ride-planning Dash application to assist passengers with disabilities on over 2,000 rides daily.
• Developers chose Dash over legacy tools for the fast development time and custom, mobile-friendly GUIs that can be written in Python.
• Engagement with Plotly supports the scale-out of Dash application deployments in other areas like vehicle tracking and customer complaint investigations.

Dash really accelerated our product development. It met our need to ideate and move to production quickly, getting the final product into our customers’ hands much faster than it would have with a different approach. — Systems Administrator, Intelligent Transportation Systems at Denver RTD