Case Study: Stagecoach Bus achieves scale and agility for critical operations with VMware Cloud on AWS

Stagecoach Creates the Scale and Agility to Meet Future Transport Challenges

Stagecoach Group, one of the UK’s largest bus and coach operators (8,300 vehicles, ~920 million annual journeys), faced an inflexible on‑prem IT estate that hindered agility, forced IT teams into reactive maintenance, and risked failing critical depot-management, vehicle-tracking and payment applications. With a major upgrade due, the business needed a cloud platform to ensure scale, performance and faster onboarding of new franchises.

Stagecoach migrated its critical depot-management application to VMware Cloud on AWS as the first step in a cloud‑first strategy. The move delivered improved resiliency and performance, slashed provisioning time (production in three weeks versus months for hardware), reduced firefighting for in‑house IT, and created a repeatable template for future migrations (vehicle tracking and smartcard payments), enabling faster innovation and more dynamic use of operational data.

Stagecoach Bus

Paul Bunting

Commercial and New Business Director