Tripco
About Tripco

We want travelling by public transport to be easy.

Everyone should be able to find out how to get from A to B and buy a ticket in one place. More people on buses and trains, fewer cars on the roads.

Our storyFor investors
since 2022from an idea to a national journey planner
Our values

What drives us

Movement

Movement is why we exist. Everything we do helps someone get somewhere.

Security

We protect passengers' data and payments the way we would protect our own.

Sustainability

Public transport is the greenest choice. We make it the easiest one too.

Manuela Maneva, founder of Tripco
The founder

How did it all start?

After many years in London, where public transport is among the best organised in the world, I came back to Bulgaria and ran into reality. I wanted to get from Burgas to Ribaritsa. Sounds simple. It turned out there was no single place where I could see how: timetables on different websites, bus station phone numbers and guesswork about the connections.

So I asked myself: why is there no single place in Bulgaria that brings all public transport together? That is how Tripco began at the end of 2022. My goal is for more people to choose public transport with confidence, because they know how to get there.

Manuela Maneva, founder of Tripco

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Our journey

From one trip to a national register

2018The idea was born from a trip from Burgas to Ribaritsa that was impossible to plan.
End of 2022Work begins, together with drivers, ticket sellers, passengers and carriers.
2023Consultations with experts from the European Commission (DG Mobility and Transport), first presentation at the forum of the Calypso Networks Association in Bucharest and the first data for Bulgaria in NeTEx. Meeting our friends at Entur (Norway), with whom we closely share experience.
2024Tripco at Web Summit in Doha, Qatar. Visit to the Intelligent Transport Systems Centre in Dubai and to LEAP in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A reality check: where we are and where the world is. Taking part in NAPCORE Mobility Data Days in Turin. Completion of the project to digitise city transport in Ruse.
First half of 2025First steps in the Bulgarian AI community. Back at Web Summit in Doha. We become a member of the Green Transport Cluster. Smart Ticketing & Digital Services Forum in Budapest and Budapest Exchange. Taking part in the co-creation programme of ABLE and BEYOND.
Second half of 2025On Tripco's initiative, Sofia opens its city transport data. Taking part in the workshop of MobilityData and in Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona, in the first annual NEMU conference in Oslo and in the Open Transport Community Conference in Vienna.
2026The register reaches 10,803 stops. First official demo at the Burgas Connectivity Forum, with the support of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Bulgaria. The first signed contract with a carrier: WE MBUS. Talks with many municipalities and regional administrations about pilot projects. Burgas Region and Vratsa Municipality are emerging as the pioneers. Bulgaria's first national journey planner enters early access.
NowAnd the numbers keep growing.
Where we are heading

Our goals for next year

By Eurovision 2027 in Burgas we want visitors and residents of the region to have a complete journey planner and online tickets for all public transport in the region. Across the country we aim for over 80% of routes in the planner and over 60% with online tickets.

80%+of the country's routes in the journey planner
60%+of routes with an online ticket in Tripco
Burgascomplete planner and tickets for the whole region
Investors and partners

Built without institutional funding or support.

Everything so far has been achieved on our own. We are looking for support and are open to partnerships with municipalities, ministries and investors who want to speed up the digitisation of public transport.

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10,803stops
2,270timetables
1,439carriers
0institutional funding
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