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Ensuring Safer Travel: A Custom Travel Risk Management Platform for a Global Workforce

Summary

In an era of heightened geopolitical instability, health risks, and increasing duty of care obligations, a global enterprise sought to better protect its travelling workforce and deliver the requirements of an industry standard for Travel Risk Management.

Partnering with our custom software development team, they launched a comprehensive Travel Risk Management platform featuring an intuitive mobile app and powerful web portal.

The platform offers real-time security alerts, location tracking with privacy control, country-specific guidance and the ability to implement and communicate travel restrictions, ensuring travellers stay informed and connected—while empowering managers to make informed, risk-aware travel decisions.

Challenges

The client’s existing travel safety system lacked integration and failed to meet the growing needs of travellers and managers. Critical information was spread across disparate tools and platforms, leaving employees unaware of fast-changing conditions or local emergency resources.

Key challenges included:

  • No unified platform for travel risk approvals or real-time tracking
  • Travellers unaware of evolving security, health, or civil risks
  • Inconsistent access to local support contacts and incident alerts
  • Manual, disconnected approval workflows for high-risk travel

There was a clear need for a modern, user-friendly platform to centralise risk data, improve communication, and enhance traveller support—especially in critical situations.

With the increasing complexity of global travel, our request to Intelogy was to develop a robust, unified travel risk management platform that allowed our organization to better manage risk processes and provide a duty of care towards our employees.

The result was a comprehensive solution that significantly enhanced our ability to ensure the safety and security of our employees while traveling on business.

– Travel Risk Manager

Solution Overview

We designed and delivered a bespoke Travel Risk Management platform comprised of two key components: a feature-rich mobile app for travellers and a secure web portal for travel coordinators and risk managers and aligned with ISO 31030.

Mobile app features:

  • Enhanced ‘Panic Mode’ with silent activation for situations where the user cannot speak

  • Smart Tracking Modes — ‘Power-Saving’, ‘Balanced’, and ‘Precise’ — giving users control over battery/data use

  • Real-Time Alerts for incidents based on the traveller’s country, including political unrest, weather, or public health events

  • Country-Level Travel Indicators, including visibility into whether travel approval is required

  • Dynamic Country Profiles offering updated health, safety, and cultural guidance

  • Direct Access to Support Contacts such as Regional Security Managers and ISOS assistance

Web portal features:

  • Travel Request Forms with structured approval workflows for high- and low-risk travel

  • Risk-Based Decision Support with country-specific threat levels and travel advisories
  • Integrated Health & Safety Guidance tailored to destination and traveller profile
  • Administrator Controls for monitoring active travellers, issuing direct alerts and implementing dynamic travel updates in response to an evolving geopolitical landscape

Our agile development process ensured that the product owners could regularly review working prototypes, give feedback, and guide features to reflect real-world needs—particularly during piloting across high-risk travel corridors.

  • Locations
  • Travel Request
  • Homepage
  • Dashboard
  • Countries

By providing real-time alerts and comprehensive risk assessments, we can proactively address any potential issues and make informed decisions to mitigate risks. The creation of an end-to-end process that streamlined and consolidated our travel planning, risk management, approval and travel tracking processes.

– Travel Risk Manager

Client Benefits and Results

The new Travel Risk Management platform dramatically improved both traveller confidence and operational oversight:

Key technologies

  • React Native (cross-platform mobile app)
  • Aurelia Framework (single-page web application)
  • SignalR (real-time alerting and messaging)
  • ASP.NET Core Web API (backend)
  • Entity Framework Core (data access & ORM)
  • Azure SQL Database (data storage)
  • Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (NoSQL data storage)
  • Microsoft Entra ID (identity provider)
  • Azure Cloud (hosting and security)
  • Power BI (reporting dashboards)

The Intelogy development and project team consistently demonstrate exceptional qualities with dedication, skill, and professionalism. The team possess a unique blend of creativity, problem-solving abilities, and a strong work ethic. They foster collaboration and innovation to deliver a fit-for-purpose solution that addresses the specific needs of our organisation for travel risk management.

– Travel Risk Manager

Your duty of care Starts with the Right Platform

Looking to protect your workforce on the move? Let’s build a Travel Risk Management solution tailored to your people and your policies.

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