Technology that adapts to the place, not the other way around.
EGWAY advises cities, transport authorities, operators and development partners on innovation that survives contact with the real operating environment — from autonomous shuttles on public roads in Québec to capacity-based minibus networks in West Africa.
Most mobility technology does not fail technically. It fails contextually.
A solution designed for a different operating model, a different data environment or a different set of institutional incentives will underperform no matter how sophisticated it is. Imported tools assume schedules, budgets, connectivity and regulatory capacity that may not exist. Operators do not adopt what does not fit their work. Authorities cannot regulate what they cannot see.
EGWAY exists to close that gap — translating field realities into technical requirements, and technology possibilities into implementation pathways decision-makers can actually act on.
- Passenger uncertaintyLimited visibility into available service, occupancy, departure and waiting time.
- Invisible systemsAuthorities hold little structured data for planning, regulation and investment.
- Misfit solutionsImported tools assume schedules, data and infrastructure that are not there.
- Adoption riskA technically valid solution still fails when operators and users do not perceive its relevance.
Time structures one system. Occupancy structures the other.
Nearly every transport technology on the market is built for the first. Most people in the cities we work in are moved by the second.
Departure is planned
Planned departures, centralized data, formalized routes and service standards. Every tool — timetables, real-time arrivals, ticketing, planning models — is built around time.
Information flows from the operator outward.Departure is a consequence
Vehicles leave when sufficiently full. Information is distributed among drivers, terminals, unions and passengers. Departure time is an outcome of passenger flow, not an input to it.
Information is held by whoever is standing there.Modernization does not mean replacing the second logic with the first. It means making the information the system already runs on visible, reliable and usable — for passengers, operators and the institutions responsible for the network.
Strategy, experimentation, delivery and scale-up — under one roof.
Assignments are right-sized: a four-week diagnostic, a designed pilot, or embedded support through a multi-year programme.
Mobility & innovation strategy
Diagnostics, visions, roadmaps, operating models and portfolio prioritization.
Digital transport & passenger information
Applications, user journeys, ticketing, payments, APIs, data and dashboards.
Automated, connected vehicles & ITS
Feasibility, operational design domain, V2I/V2X, safety, readiness and evaluation.
Living labs & urban pilots
Scoping, governance, vendors, sites, protocols, indicators, risks and lessons.
Paratransit modernization
Solution mapping, digital maturity diagnostics, professionalization and governance.
Technology adoption & transfer
Relevance assessment, institutional alignment, change, training and appropriation.
Canada's first long-term autonomous shuttle in mixed traffic
Full project lifecycle on a 2 km public-road circuit: route assessment, vehicle importation, operator training, readiness and multi-agency coordination.
Read 2019–2023 · MontréalPlaza Saint-Hubert connected urban trial
A CAD 5 M municipal programme combining public-road experimentation, V2I/V2X connectivity, acceptance research and recommendations to the Québec government.
Read World Bank / SSATPDigital modernization of African paratransit
Mapping of solution families across fare collection, operations, passenger information, e-hailing and regulation — with success and failure factors translated into recommendations.
ReadWe do not only advise on pilots. We run one.
EGWAY operates a passenger-information initiative built for capacity-based networks — the minibus and paratransit services that move most people in West African cities. It makes visible what the system already knows: how many passengers are still needed, which destination is served, and which vehicle is about to leave.
It is the practical test of everything on this site. Running it keeps our advice honest about what deployment in a constrained environment actually costs.
One entry point for mobility innovation, digital transport and institutional modernization.
Whether you are scoping a diagnostic, designing a pilot, or assembling a consortium for an international call — start with a conversation about the decision you actually need to make.
An integrated capability portfolio.
EGWAY is particularly relevant when an assignment combines several dimensions at once: urban innovation, public transport, intelligent systems, data, technology adoption, informal mobility, international cooperation or real-world experimentation.
Mobility & innovation strategy
Where an organization needs to decide what to do before deciding what to buy. We assess the system as it actually operates, map the stakeholders and incentives that will determine whether anything sticks, and produce a roadmap that is sequenced against real budgets and real institutional capacity.
- System & needs diagnosticService, demand, operations, digital maturity, risk and opportunity assessment.
- Vision & roadmapTarget state, phasing, dependencies, investment logic and decision gates.
- Operating & business modelsRoles, revenue, cost structure, governance and contracting options.
- Portfolio prioritizationComparing candidate initiatives on value, feasibility and readiness.
Digital transport & passenger information
From the user journey backwards. We specify what the passenger, the driver and the controller each need to see, then work out the data, interfaces and integrations required to deliver it in the connectivity and device environment that actually exists on the ground.
- User journeys & service designPassenger, driver and operator journeys mapped to real constraints.
- Applications & interfacesRequirements, low-bandwidth design, accessibility and digital-literacy considerations.
- Ticketing & paymentsFare media, mobile money, reconciliation, fraud and affordability.
- Data, APIs & dashboardsStandards, interoperability, indicator design and institutional reporting.
Automated, connected vehicles & ITS
Hands-on experience preparing, operating and evaluating autonomous vehicles on public roads. Our expertise extends well beyond onboard technology to the conditions that actually determine whether a deployment succeeds: site selection, operational design domain, interactions with other road users, connected infrastructure, procedures, training, operations, data, communications and acceptance.
- Opportunity & feasibility studiesIs this the right technology, on this corridor, at this time?
- Operational design domain & route analysisMatching vehicle capability to the street it will actually run on.
- V2I, V2X, SPaT & connected intersectionsTest scenarios, firmware and intersection parameters, independent validation.
- Safety & emergency coordinationSafety plans, manual fallback procedures, police and fire service engagement.
- Readiness & evaluationOperator readiness, technical, operational and user indicators, incident analysis.
Living labs & urban pilots
Designing experiments that produce value for decision-makers, citizens and operations teams — not demonstrations that produce photographs. A pilot without a decision question attached is a cost centre.
A strong pilot produces
A clear decision question, a relevant site, explicit roles, test scenarios, indicators, a risk register, accessible data and an evaluation method.
A weak pilot produces
A demonstration without a hypothesis, an unchallenged vendor, unclear responsibilities, inaccessible proprietary data, communication that outruns the evidence, and premature scale-up.
- Scoping & governanceDecision question, sponsors, roles, steering structure and escalation paths.
- Site & vendor selectionCriteria, market engagement, evaluation and contracting.
- Protocols & indicatorsTest plan, measurement design, baselines and data collection.
- Risk & communicationsRisk register, mitigation, public communication and stakeholder engagement.
- Lessons & transferEvaluation reports, decision briefs and replication guidance.
Paratransit & informal transport modernization
Structuring and digitizing without erasing the local logics that already move millions of people. Our work here draws directly on a World Bank / SSATP assignment analysing how digital technologies can improve, professionalize and modernize paratransit in African cities — comparing active, pilot, discontinued and emerging initiatives, and turning success and failure factors into recommendations governments and operators can use.
- Digital readiness diagnosticsWhere the system is today across technology, capacity, data and governance.
- Solution family mappingFare collection, operations management, passenger information, GIS, e-hailing, regulation.
- Comparative case analysisWhat worked elsewhere, what did not, and which conditions explain the difference.
- Professionalization & governanceOperator associations, compliance, licensing, capacity and incentive design.
Technology adoption & transfer
Innovation becomes durable only when users, operators and institutions understand, appropriate and legitimize it. We assess a proposed solution against six conditions before anyone commits budget to it — and design the change, training and institutional work that closes the gaps we find.
This framework draws on the founder's ongoing doctoral research at École de technologie supérieure into technology adoption in Global South urban mobility. It is presented as a working framework, not a validated published model.
- UsefulnessDoes the solution solve a visible, high-priority problem?
- Ease of useCan it be used with the skills, devices, data and time available?
- Operational compatibilityDoes it fit existing roles, workflows, incentives and service logic?
- Social legitimacyDo users, operators and influential actors see it as credible and appropriate?
- Institutional capacityDo rules, budgets, responsibilities and skills support continuity after launch?
- InfrastructureAre connectivity, power, hardware, data and support genuinely available?
Right-sized to the decision in front of you.
Assignments can be fixed-price, time-based, retainer, consortium-based or embedded in a donor-funded programme.
| Format | Typical duration | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Diagnostic & roadmap | 4–8 weeks | Interviews, document review, system and stakeholder mapping, digital maturity, priorities, target architecture and action plan. |
| Pilot design | 8–16 weeks | Use case, site, requirements, partners, protocol, safety, indicators, budget and governance. |
| Implementation support | 3–12 months | Coordination, vendor follow-up, operations, data, communications, evaluation and knowledge transfer. |
| Consortium role | Project duration | Task or work-package leadership within an international research or innovation programme. |
These formats are indicative. Assumptions, timelines and budgets are confirmed after scoping.
A pathway that reduces risk and makes innovation measurable.
Six stages. Each one ends in a decision, not a document. You can enter at any stage and stop at any stage — but skipping stages is where projects fail.
- 01
Understand
Clarify the problem, users, operations, constraints and expected outcomes. Establish what decision this work has to inform.
- 02
Align
Map stakeholders, responsibilities, incentives and the conditions under which a decision can actually be taken.
- 03
Design
Select the approach and define requirements, user journeys, data and governance.
- 04
Pilot
Prepare the site, provider, operations, safety, training and communications.
- 05
Measure
Track technical, operational, user, institutional and financial indicators against a baseline.
- 06
Decide & scale
Convert results into recommendations, roadmaps, specifications or a scale-up strategy — including the decision not to proceed.
- Relevance before sophisticationSelect the level of technology that answers the real need.
- Design with contextStart from local practices, constraints and motivations.
- Evidence before scaleTest, measure, document and learn.
- Public valueEmbed safety, accessibility, equity, sustainability and governance.
- InteroperabilityAvoid silos and prepare future integration.
- PartnershipAlign authorities, operators, citizens, researchers and providers.
A bridging role between four worlds that rarely share a vocabulary.
We translate field realities into technical requirements, and technology possibilities into implementation pathways decision-makers can act on.
Mobility & public policy
Service objectives, regulatory frameworks, governance and public value.
Innovation & technology
Solutions, interoperability, risks, data and deployment readiness.
Adoption & context
Practices, capabilities, incentives, culture and infrastructure.
International cooperation
Governments, universities, clusters, companies and development partners.
Six lessons that now shape every assignment.
Real-world performance depends on the operational design domain, integration quality and the system's ability to absorb urban complexity.
Operational design domain
Low-speed shuttles perform better in controlled, calm environments that match their limitations.
Obstacle interpretation
Sensors must distinguish real hazards from street furniture, vegetation and normal urban variability.
Claimed vs. real performance
Battery autonomy, capacity, climate control and functionality must be verified under actual service conditions.
V2I & safety
SPaT messages, firmware and intersection parameters require rigorous test scenarios and independent validation.
The human role
When manual intervention is frequent, the operator remains an active driving and safety actor — not a passive supervisor.
Local capacity
Local trainers and technicians reduce dependency, interruptions and project risk.
The vehicle and the system must adapt to the city. A living city should not have to remove its vegetation, its ordinary activity and its complexity to accommodate immature technology.
Programmes led, pilots delivered, systems assessed.
EGWAY Inc. is a young company. The record below is the founder's leadership experience acquired at Keolis Canada, the City of Montréal, Technopôle IVÉO and as a World Bank / SSATP consultant. We present it as founder credentials, not as contracts delivered by EGWAY Inc. — the distinction matters, and we make it in every proposal.
Canada's first long-term autonomous shuttle demonstration in mixed traffic
A 100% electric autonomous shuttle operating a 2 km circuit on public roads, planned as a twelve-month demonstration — the first of its kind in Canada at that scale.
Primaël-Marie Sodonon oversaw the full project lifecycle: route assessment, feasibility, vehicle importation, configuration and programming, operator recruitment and training, operational readiness and partner coordination.
Coordination spanned the City of Candiac, Québec's transport ministry, the SAAQ, police and fire services, the operator and the technology provider. The project made three things unmistakable: the site has to be fit for purpose, the procedures have to be explicit, and public communication has to stay behind the evidence rather than ahead of it.
Founder credential acquired at Keolis Canada. Not a contract delivered by EGWAY Inc.
Plaza Saint-Hubert — a connected urban trial and a CAD 5 M research programme
A municipal programme combining public-road experimentation, V2I/V2X connectivity, social acceptance research, road-sharing observation and formal recommendations to the Québec government.
The founder managed the programme, its budget and its accountability; coordinated municipal services, providers, operators, provincial partners and research teams; and translated field findings into technical reports and decision materials.
Two electric shuttles ran a 2 km urban route with seven stops and four connected signals, accumulating 58 service days, 768 completed circuits, 1,395 km and 1,348 passengers.
Source: City of Montréal, Plaza Saint-Hubert Experimentation Report — Phase 2, April 2022. Founder credential acquired at the City of Montréal.
Digital modernization of African paratransit
A study analysing how digital technologies can improve, professionalize and modernize paratransit in African cities.
The work covered fare collection and payments, operations management, passenger information and GIS, e-hailing, and regulation and compliance. It compared active, pilot, discontinued and emerging initiatives, then translated success and failure factors into recommendations for governments, development partners, operators and providers.
Consulting experience of the founder. No World Bank or SSATP endorsement of EGWAY Inc. is implied.
Urban living labs across nine municipalities
Portfolio leadership for technology pilots in mobility, energy, climate and resilience across nine municipalities — co-creation with local teams, assessment of operational fit, and support for public-sector adoption of the technologies that proved out.
Nine municipalities is where the difference between a demonstration and a deployable solution stops being theoretical: the same technology succeeds in one city and stalls in the next, and the explanation is almost never technical.
Senior advisory on transit data and user journeys
Coordination with the STM, the ARTM and Québec's transport ministry on data, user journeys and decision support within the Montréal en Commun innovation programme.
International R&D partnerships and consortium building
R&D partnerships, consortia, joint calls and technology collaboration linking Québec, Europe and Asia — the practice that informs EGWAY's work structuring international proposals and consortium roles.
Passenger information for networks that run on occupancy, not on time.
A mobile initiative designed to improve the predictability of informal and paratransit services — without replacing operators or imposing artificial schedules on a system that has never used them.
Make visible the information the system already uses.
In a capacity-based network, three facts govern everyone's decisions: how many passengers are still needed, which destination is served, and which vehicle is preparing to leave. Today those facts live in the heads of the people standing at the terminal. The initiative simply writes them down and shares them.
The driver interface captures origin, destination, vehicle identity, passengers still required and, where relevant, an estimated time to departure. The passenger interface reflects those updates in real time.
- Reduce uncertainty and unproductive waiting
- Improve vehicle and driver identification
- Progressively create service data where none exists
- Preserve the operating flexibility of the network
Interface representation. The initiative documented an initial launch in Benin with an expansion pathway in West Africa; traction and financial indicators are provided on request and under current data.
Four steps, in the order they happen at the terminal.
No new behaviour is asked of anyone. The driver already counts seats; the passenger already asks how full the vehicle is.
- 01
The driver opens a service
Origin, destination, vehicle and reference capacity.
- 02
Occupancy evolves
The number of passengers still required updates as people board.
- 03
The passenger checks
Available services become visible, helping the passenger choose when to reach the departure point.
- 04
Data accumulates
Filling, departure and demand patterns become analyzable for the first time.
Manual input is not merely an early-stage limitation. It recognizes that the driver currently holds the most situated information in the system. Automation should follow once data and trust make it appropriate — not before.
Operational data can make essential but poorly measured systems visible.
The immediate value is a better trip. The long-term value is a network that authorities can plan, regulate and invest in.
Supply & operations
Active vehicles, origin–destination, departure frequency, terminal dwell, service density, update reliability.
Occupancy & demand
Fill rate, occupancy at departure, passengers still required, demand by terminal, period and route.
User experience
Estimated and observed waiting time, service visibility, journeys, feedback, adoption and retention.
Governance
Network coverage, underserved areas, terminal performance, infrastructure needs, compliance, professionalization.
Target evolution
| Phase | Capability |
|---|---|
| Phase 1 | Declared data and service visibility. |
| Phase 2 | Data quality and aggregation. |
| Phase 3 | Forecasting and recommendations. |
| Phase 4 | Institutional analytics and integration with other systems. |
Access & architecture
- Affordable micro-subscriptionPriced against real driver earnings, not Western benchmarks.
- Mobile-money integrationEnvisaged as the primary payment path.
- Free for passengersBarriers removed on the side of the network with the least margin.
- Lightweight, data-efficientDesigned for constrained devices, connectivity and data budgets.
Data from this initiative creates value only when it is governed responsibly. Deployments address consent, data minimization, security, differentiated access, retention rules and transparency about institutional use before collection begins.
Modular cooperation for programmes that cross borders.
EGWAY works with development partners, universities, transport networks and technology providers — as a task leader inside a consortium, a technical assistance provider, or a co-funding pilot partner.
Technical assistance
Diagnostics, strategy, governance, terms of reference, capacity building and implementation support.
Joint pilot
Co-funding, site selection, protocol, technology integration, local engagement, monitoring and evaluation.
Applied research
Research questions, field data, comparative analysis, publications, dissemination and policy translation.
Data partnership
Governance, collection, indicators, dashboards, institutional access and analytics exploration.
Innovation consortium
Consortium building, interest alignment, proposal, budget, work plan and international coordination.
Technology partnership
Solution adaptation, interoperability tests, localization, integration and market readiness.
A Canadian partner for European consortia.
Canada is associated to Pillar II of Horizon Europe, which means Canadian entities can participate in — and lead — consortia. EGWAY is available to European coordinators as a specialist partner rather than a generalist one.
Our contribution is the part of a proposal that reviewers most often find thin: what happens after the technology works. Adoption readiness, institutional mapping, living-lab design, capacity building, uptake indicators and the conditions under which a result actually replicates in a second city.
- Task leader — living-lab capitalisation or city uptake
- Knowledge management & replication contributor
- Community-of-practice & capacity-building partner
- Work-plan, deliverable & quality coordination
- International cooperation & dissemination partner
Knowledge management & capitalisation
Synthesise pilot lessons into case studies, guidance, evidence and decision tools.
Replication & uptake by cities
Readiness criteria, transfer pathways, follower-city support and adoption frameworks.
Community building
Stakeholder mapping, workshops, webinars, peer learning and cross-ecosystem exchange.
Communication & training
Executive briefs, toolkits, training materials and dissemination content.
Public-sector implementation
Bridging cities, operators, startups, researchers and policy makers; translating field realities into usable recommendations.
Consortium coordination
Work-plan and deliverable tracking, quality assurance, risk monitoring, documentation and reporting.
Who we work alongside.
If you are assembling a proposal and need the adoption, living-lab or uptake component covered, we should talk early — before the work packages are frozen.
A Canadian mobility innovation company, built around one principle.
Technology creates value only when it fits the operational, social and institutional realities of the place where it is deployed.
Mobility solutions are too often judged by their sophistication rather than their relevance.
I founded EGWAY after seeing the same pattern repeatedly. In formal systems, time and schedules structure passenger information. In many informal networks, departure is governed instead by vehicle occupancy, immediate availability, trust and human coordination. Imposing an external operating logic does not modernize mobility; it widens the gap between technology and reality.
My career has allowed me to examine this challenge from several angles. At Keolis Canada and the City of Montréal, I led the preparation and trial of autonomous shuttles in mixed traffic, coordinated public partners, manufacturers, operators and researchers, and translated field evidence into recommendations. Through municipal living labs, I learned to distinguish an attractive demonstration from a solution that can truly be deployed. As a consultant to the World Bank and SSATP, I analyzed how digital technologies can support the modernization and professionalization of African paratransit.
EGWAY brings those lessons together. Our ambition is not to sell an isolated technology. It is to co-create innovation pathways that are context-fit, measurable and inclusive — helping cities, operators, development partners and technology providers understand existing systems, select relevant solutions, structure rigorous pilots, and produce the evidence required to decide and scale.
Primaël-Marie Sodonon
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
- PurposeMake mobility transformation more relevant, inclusive and deployable where formal, informal and digital systems coexist.
- MissionDesign and implement solutions, pilots and adoption frameworks that improve transport information, performance and governance.
- VisionCities where every mobility system — formal or informal — can become visible, understandable, improvable and connected without losing its local logic.
Lean, founder-led, and scaled to the assignment.
EGWAY mobilizes technical specialists, researchers, local partners and field agents according to each engagement — combining senior strategic direction with execution capacity sized to the work.
Primaël-Marie Sodonon
International mobility and innovation strategist with more than ten years of experience spanning autonomous and connected mobility, digital transport systems, urban living labs, informal transport modernization, international partnerships and public programme management. He managed a CAD 5 million programme at the City of Montréal and served as a World Bank / SSATP consultant. He is completing a doctorate at École de technologie supérieure on technology adoption in Global South urban mobility.
Laura Aït-Ouarabi
Bid management and project coordination specialist with four years of experience in engineering administration and operations. Laura runs an extensive proposal portfolio — 30 to 35 submissions a year — coordinating multidisciplinary teams, analyzing contractual risks, and ensuring compliance and quality through to final submission.
Geographic focus
Canada for institutional and advanced-technology expertise; West Africa and the Global South for context-fit innovation.
Five working languages
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Sango.
SDG 9 & SDG 11
Industry, innovation and infrastructure; sustainable cities and communities — with cross-cutting contribution to digital inclusion, service access and institutional capacity.
Inclusion
Accessible information, lightweight interfaces, low data consumption and affordability-oriented pricing.
Sustainable cities
Reduced uncertainty, better utilization of shared vehicles and data for planning.
Innovation & infrastructure
Progressive digitization of essential systems that are often absent from official architectures.
Governance
Turning invisible activity into indicators for investment, regulation and equity.
| Legal name | EGWAY Inc. |
| Status | Federally incorporated Canadian corporation |
| Corporation number | 1596500-4 |
| Office | 1920 Boul. Rosemont, Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| Contact | info@e-gway.com |
Let's work together.
A single entry point for innovative mobility, digital transport and institutional modernization projects. Tell us the decision you need to make and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right people for it.
Montréal, Québec, Canada