New travel app released to help passengers find best transport option between airports and city centre locations

CityHook (@CityHook) a new mobile app which helps passengers to easily find the best transport option between over 130 different European airports and nearby city centre locations is now available to download for free on iPhone and Android smartphones.

From a passenger’s perspective, finding the best connection between an airport and the nearby city usually involves understanding three key factors; journey time, cost and drop-off location, from all the available travel options. However it is usually difficult for passengers to find complete and independent sources of information for all available modes of transport from airports.

 
CityHook Screen Shot

CityHook addresses this issue by providing information about transport options from airports and presenting them in an easy to read format. This makes it easier for passengers to choose the travel option which best suits their needs.

CityHook, which is located at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs, is the brain child of Kevin O’Shaughnessy and Italian, Tommaso Solesin who met while completing their Masters degrees at University College Dublin’s Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.

Pictured at NovaUCD are CityHook co-founders, Kevin O’Shaughnessy and Tommaso Solesin

Speaking about the origins of CityHook, Kevin O’Shaughnessy said, “Tommaso and I both love to travel and had realised that every time we landed at a new airport, we were instantly at a loss as to what was the best option to travel into the city centre. We believed other passengers had similar experiences and that’s when the idea of CityHook emerged. We decided that there must be a solution which organises airport transport information and makes that final part of the journey from an airport into a city centre easier and less stressful.”

Speaking about future plans Kevin O’Shaughnessy said, “Currently we are focusing on growing our product by adding additional destinations within Europe and North America and making it as useful as possible for passengers. Soon we will allow the public and businesses to suggest and create connections or “hooks” between any two destinations.”

The CityHook iPhone App is available to download for free from the App store via http://cityhook.com/iphone and for Android devices via http://cityhook.com/android.

CityHook is also accessible via http://www.cityhook.com which went live earlier this year.

ENDS

12 September 2012

For further information contact Micéal Whelan, University College Dublin, Communications Manager (Innovation), t: + 353 1 716 3712, e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie or Kevin O’Shaughnessy,t: +353 76 603 3733 or e: kevin@cityhook.com.

Editors Notes

CityHook is a simple service which helps find the best route between airports and city centre locations. www.cityhook.com

At NovaUCD, the hub for new ventures and entrepreneurs at University College Dublin, we provide purpose-built, state-of-the-art incubation facilities for knowledge-intensive companies alongside a comprehensive business support programme for our client companies. At NovaUCD we nurture new technology and knowledge-intensive enterprises such as CityHook. NovaUCD has been funded through a unique public-private partnership that includes AIB Bank, Arthur Cox, Deloitte, Enterprise Ireland, Ericsson, Goodbody Stockbrokers, UCD and Xilinx. www.ucd.ie/innovation