A mobility
operating system
for Cyprus.
Aloya starts as the most trusted way to ride the bus in Cyprus. That is the wedge, not the destination. The destination is a platform citizens, tourists, operators, businesses, and the state all touch, each through the surface that fits them. Trust compounds. We do not skip steps.
Cyprus has buses, coaches, scooters, bikes, shuttles, EV chargers, and a national traffic feed. What Cyprus does not have is a single trustworthy way to use any of it.
Riders open competing apps, see a bus that isn't there, and give up. Tourists default to taxis because nothing tells them the coach is forty minutes cheaper. Locals plan around ghosts. The state pays for realtime feeds no app surfaces correctly. We are competing on one question: can I trust what this app just told me? Everything else follows.
Five horizons.
- H1NowShipped
The Citizen App
A single Cyprus mobility app a resident, tourist, or commuter can trust.
Every ETA carries a confidence signal. Every failure mode has an escape hatch, walk-out, replan, taxi handoff. Every mode on one map, one plan, one screen. Bus, coach, bike, scooter, park-and-ride, airport shuttle, EV, one product, one voice.
- H2Now → 2026Partial
The Wallet
One tap to pay for any journey on the island.
Motion Card in Apple/Google Wallet. Unified fare surface across every operator. NPT, EMEL, OSEL, OSYPA, IC intercity, Kapnos, taxi, bike, scooter. Honest fare comparison. Group passes, tourist multi-day passes. Anonymous-first.
- H32026 → 2027Live
The Intelligence Layer
The prediction, routing, and reliability engine for Cyprus mobility.
Reliability scoring per route, stop, hour, day. Ghost detection across agencies. ETA fusion of GTFS-RT, rider GPS, sightings, and history. Anomaly detection that turns noise into guidance. Cross-modal routing that ranks by real API-driven ETAs, not haversine math.
- H42027 → 2028Planned
The Platform
The same engines exposed as products.
Aloya Routing, Reliability, Realtime, Places, and Fare APIs. Web and Mobile SDKs any Cypriot business can drop in. White-label kiosks for airports, hotels, universities. A read-only partner Console, analytics, never levers.
- H52028+Horizon
The Mobility OS
The default mobility layer of Cyprus.
Aloya inside CarPlay, Android Auto, Siri, Wallet passes, home widgets, Live Activities. The mobility layer for events, tourism, accessibility, and logistics. The citizen app becomes one of many surfaces on top of the same platform.
Six rules. Not aspirations.
01Accuracy over reinvention
Authoritative APIs as source of truth for ETAs, routing, geocoding. Our differentiation is fusion on top of best-in-class signals, not a basic replica of them.
02Honest degradation
If we don't know, we say we don't know. Never fake confidence. Never round a zero-bike station up to one. Every state nameable in one line of plain-language copy.
03Trust compounds
Every rider we lose to a wrong ETA is a lost lifetime, not a lost trip. Every rider we save from a ghost bus tells three friends. We optimise for the second graph, always.
04Citizen-first, forever
Even at Horizon 5 the rider is why the platform exists. A partner API request that hurts a rider's experience is a partner we say no to.
05Anonymous by default
The full app is usable with zero sign-up. Accounts persist history and the wallet, they never gate planning, ETAs, or alerts.
06No dark patterns
No sponsored ranking. No fake urgency. No ads. No cross-app tracking. No data sold. Fastest is fastest.
We remember every bus day.
Most apps look at the bus now and forget it a minute later. We keep it. Every minute, we write down where each bus is, how fast it moves, and how late it is. We keep the weather with it. We keep the flights that land, the ships that dock, the match that fills the road, and what riders tell us they see at the stop. After a year, that is a full picture of how the island really moves.
The buses
- Where each bus is, minute by minute
- How fast it moves on each street
- How late it is at each stop
- Whole years of past trips
The island around them
- Heat, rain, wind and air quality
- Flights that land at Larnaca and Paphos
- Ships that dock at Limassol
- Match days and big events
What riders see
- Stop reports from riders
- Fixes when the feed is wrong
- Transfers made and transfers missed
- Real walk and boarding times
What the memory gives a rider.
- 01
An arrival time that knows the day
A ship docks in Limassol at 09:30 and the coast road slows down. A wave of flights lands and the Nicosia coach fills up. We saw it last time, so we can add the minutes before you feel them.
- 02
A warning before the bus vanishes
When a bus stops sending its position in the same way it did on the days it was pulled from service, we say so and offer another way, instead of leaving you at the stop.
- 03
A straight answer about your transfer
We can tell you how often that same transfer worked at that hour on that day. If it looks tight, we move you to an earlier bus or a shorter walk before you board.
- 04
A note when the bus leaves early
Buses that run three or four minutes ahead cause many missed trips here. Only the record shows which trips do it, so only the record can warn you.
- 05
A guess at how full it will be
School hours, work hours and flight waves repeat. We can tell you if you are likely to stand, and when the next quieter bus comes.
- 06
A fair report card for operators
Promised time against real time, every quarter, for every operator. No opinion in it. Just what the buses did.
Who else needs it.
Nobody in Cyprus keeps this record today. The towns, the ministry, the operators, the hotels, and the delivery firms all plan without it. We can share it as counts and averages, never as one person's trips. That is a business, and it stays inside our rules: the rider comes first, and rider data is never for sale.
- The transport ministry and the towns, for road and route decisions
- Operators, to see where their own service slips
- Hotels and resorts, for honest travel times to airports and beaches
- Couriers and delivery firms, for traffic they can plan around
- Other mobility apps that need the same ground truth
- Universities studying island transport
Eight waves, shipped in public.
- 1
Fix trust
Months 0–3
Ghost suppression, confidence-banded ETAs, rider sightings, reliability scores, smart alternatives on failure.
Shipped - 2
Daily-use quality
Months 3–6
Why-this-route rationale, accessibility-weighted routing, walk guidance, park & ride, five-city coverage.
Shipped - 3
Advanced multimodal
Month 6+
Intercity patterns, last-mile taxi handoff, Nextbike, Bolt scooters, live EV, Kapnos, traffic alerts, Group Trips co-presence.
Shipped - 4
Wallet & payments
Q3 2026 → Q1 2027
Unified multi-operator fares. Group + family passes. Tourist multi-day passes. Ghost-bus refunds without support tickets.
Next - 5
Intelligence as a product
Q1 → Q3 2027
Routing, Reliability, Realtime, Places, Fare, Anomaly APIs. Developer portal. Metered billing. Documented SLAs.
Planned - 6
SDKs & white-label
Q3 2027 → Q1 2028
Web SDK. Mobile SDK. Server SDKs. Airport kiosks. Hotel concierge. University portals. Partner onboarding.
Planned - 7
The mobility OS
2028
CarPlay, Android Auto, Siri, Live Activities, widgets, haptics. Events, tourism, accessibility, and logistics surfaces.
Planned - 8
Regional expansion
2028+
Malta first. Greek islands. Balearics. Cyprus↔Greece coach + ferry chains. Never before Cyprus is truly won.
Horizon
The rider app is free. All of it.
The revenue is the platform.
Free for every rider, no subscription
- Journey planning, every mode
- Real-time bus positions
- Reliability scores in-app
- Accessibility features
- Ghost-bus warnings
- Emergency replan flows
- Group trips, any size
- Offline island schedules
- Full trip history
Revenue streams, staged with the roadmap
Wallet margin
Thin margin on top-ups. Never on the ride. Face value always.
Aloya API
Freemium 10k req/mo, then per-1k tiering. Enterprise for high-volume partners.
SDK licensing
Per-domain (web) and per-app (mobile). Free tier under 10k MAU.
Corporate mobility
Employer-funded budgets. Per-employee monthly. Zero receipts.
Events & data products
Anonymised, aggregated mobility patterns. Per-event reliability boosts.
Some lines are drawn once,
and never crossed.
- Sell rider PII
- Sell rider-level location data
- Sell to advertisers
- Cross-app tracking
- Sponsored ranking of routes
- Dark patterns on wallet upsell
- Sponsored operator recommendations
Cyprus is a small island. That is not a limitation. that is the entire opportunity. One country, one mobility layer, done right, then exported.
. The Aloya team, Nicosia