When conducting the TransACT training courses on behalf of Omnibus, there is always a specific part of a network I once worked on that is used to explain a concept or two. This is because of the amount of lessons I personally learnt early in my career as a result of operating this one part …
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Why Do We Schedule..?
There has been much talk across the bus industry in recent times about demand forecasting, dynamic route management and big data. With all of the technology and data now available to us, why do we still bother to schedule buses..? Well, scheduling your operation in advance will give you the best plan possible for any …
A Shabby Bus Story
On one of my regular trips out in the UK, I happened to catch sight of a particularly shabby bus operating for a major group. This may not sound overly surprising or noteworthy as many large fleets will have those vehicles that are heading towards the end of their service lives or perhaps have had …
What is a schedulers job..?
For some, scheduling seems like a dark art, practiced by mysterious beings in shadowy corners of the company’s head offices. Whereas others may assume schedulers are merely observers, as algorithms and A.I. make all the decisions for them, somewhere in the misty reaches of ‘the cloud’. But, which is it? What do schedulers actually do? …
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