Tracsis is a United Kingdom-based company that provides software technologies for the rail, traffic data and wider transport industries. The company is headquartered in Leeds and is a constituent of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) market on the London Stock Exchange.
History The company was created as a spin-out of the Computing Department of the University of Leeds, and rapidly grew through expansion. The company's first acquisition, Robert Watson Associates, was larger than Tracsis at the time and was spun-out of Loughborough University.
In 2005, John McArthur became CEO of the company.
The company has been on the AIM market since November 2007.
In 2014, Tracsis won the Growth Business of the Year Award from the UK Tech Awards.
In 2016, McArthur sold a tenth of his holding in the company.
In 2019, McArthur was succeeded by Chris Barnes, who was previously head of automotive consulting at Ricardo plc.
On 1st August 2025 Chris Barnes was succeeded by David Frost, who was previously Chief Executive Officer at Ovarro Ltd
Acquisitions +Company acquiredBusiness purposeYear acquiredRWA Rail LimitedConsultancy services to the rail sector focusing on operational and strategic planning2008Peeping LimitedDemand and queueing software and research based services to train operating companies including station footfall assessment and rail related surveys2009Safety Information Systems LimitedData analysis, process control and management reporting software2009MPEC Technology LimitedRemote Event and Condition Monitoring hardware and software2011Sky High PlcVehicle traffic and event monitoring2013Datasys Integration LimitedSoftware for capturing, reporting and analysing the root causes of delays and other performance critical information2014SEP Limited and SEP Events LimitedTraffic planning and management services for the events industry2015Ontrac Limited and Ontrac Technology LimitedRail safety software2015Travel Compensation Services Ltd, Delay Repay Sniper Ltd and S Dalby Consulting LtdDelay repay solutions2018Compass Informatics Limited (Ireland) and Compass Informatics UK LimitedIrish data analytics2019Cash & Traffic Management LimitedEvent traffic planning and admission control2019Bellvedi LimitedTimetable planning and optimisation software2019iBlocks LimitedSmart ticketing solutions and delay repay2020Icon Group LimitedGeoscience and spatial data analysis2021Flash Forward ConsultingStrategic, commercial, operations and stakeholder management2021RailCommUS-based provider of rail automation software2022Mistral Data LimitedUK-based provider of rail software solutions2026
Operations Originally focused on software to help railway operators manage their operations, such as vehicle and crew scheduling, resource management, and monitoring, it has expanded to cover ticketing, data analytics, and event management for the wider transport industry, with notable systems such as PCDS, which helped the UK rail industry recover from COVID-19 by providing train operators with robust means to quickly and accurately assess the numbers of passengers using services across the rail network.
Clients include Network Rail and bus and train operating companies such as Go-Ahead Group and FirstGroup.
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