Bus Planning and Operations Software.
Survey consists of responses from four organizations that develop and market bus planning and operations software. The survey included four parts: A. Transit Planning; B. Scheduling/Blocking/Runcutting/Rostering; C. Operations; and D. Customer Information/Trip Planning. Topic/questions include:
- The name of the software
- The organization marketing the software
- The price range and/or pricing basis
- Data formats accommodated for data export
- Operating systems supported
- Natural languages supported
- Number of transit properties using software in the U.S. and outside the U.S.
- Years software has been used in U.S. and outside the U.S.
- Options provided for support and training
- Annual cost of support of software
- Services included in support
- Transit modes that software can accommodate
- Relational databases that software supports
- Whether software is integrated with GIS to enable mapping operations
- Other modules with which software is integrated
- Other systems with which software is integrated
- Open database design
- Determines population statistics such as densities, age and income
- Integrates census data in analyses
- Identifies locations of special services
- Produces thematic maps
- Strengths of software
- Builds timetables and displays connections and transfers in timetables
- Interpolates bus stop arrival times
- Blocking methods
- Accommodate interlining routes or trips
- Includes union rules in interlining
- When vehicle blocking is done, does it minimizes deadheading or consider garage limitations?
- Optimizes deadhead routes
- When runcutting and driver assignment is done, does the software: have an optimization procedure that minimizes costs, adhere to union agreements, consider hard and soft rules, base travel times on time of day or scheduled service?
- Considers types of crewing rules, when rostering/weekly crew is done
- Creates both four and five day rosters
- Modifies costing routines to calculate and minimize weekly makeup and overtime
- Accommodate effective and discontinue dates
- Determines the revenue impact of route-restructuring
- FTA Section 15 reporting can be done
- Reports produced
- Styles and types of bidding
- Interface to human resources data
- Accesses driver information
- Monitors and processes extraboard assignments, driver check-in, vehicle assignment, extra work and run assignments
- Immediate access to schedule changes
- Performs pre-payroll process for driver pay
- Builds day, week or bi-monthly payroll file
- Generates automatic transit route information between origin and destination
- Transit route info based on all transit modes provided
- Accommodate maximum walk time and number of transfers
- Provides walking instructions
- Can access timetable and/or fare information
- Supports mailing of publications, tickets, etc.
- Can access frequently asked telephone numbers
- Can access information on transportation facilities
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